Universities

AFDA

Private university: AFDA is South Africa's leading private higher education institution dedicated to training students for careers in film, television, live performance, creative writing and business innovation.

Boston City Campus

Private university: Boston City Campus is one of South Africa's largest private higher education institutions, delivering accredited higher certificates, diplomas, degrees and postgraduate qualifications through distance learning supported by a nationwide network of support centres.

Eduvos

Private university: A private South African higher education institution with 12 campuses nationwide, offering accredited higher certificates, bachelor's degrees and postgraduate qualifications across the faculties of Applied Science, Commerce, Humanities, Information Technology and Law.

MANCOSA

Private university: MANCOSA is a private, distance-learning focused business school offering accredited undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications across South Africa and Namibia.

North-West University (NWU)

Public university: North-West University (NWU) is a multi-campus South African public university spanning Mahikeng, Potchefstroom, and Vanderbijlpark, offering a broad range of undergraduate qualifications across health sciences, natural and agricultural sciences, commerce, humanities, education, engineering, law, and theology.

Regenesys Business School

Private university: A private, Sandton-headquartered business school with a pan-African footprint, whose course book is dominated by postgraduate and executive-education programmes but also includes a smaller set of undergraduate qualifications for school-leavers in business, law, public management, IT and education.

Regent Business School

Private university: A private Durban-headquartered business school, part of Honoris United Universities, offering higher certificates through postgraduate qualifications in commerce, management and related business fields across Southern Africa.

Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology

Private university: Richfield is a private South African higher education institution offering online and on-campus Higher Certificates, Diplomas, and Bachelor's and postgraduate degrees across business and IT fields.

Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)

Public university: SMU is South Africa's only stand-alone health sciences university, training doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals at its Ga-Rankuwa campus near Pretoria.

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

Public university: TUT is South Africa's largest residential university of technology, based in Pretoria, delivering career-oriented diplomas, higher certificates and technology-focused bachelor's degrees across seven faculties.

University of Johannesburg

Public university: A large, multi-campus public university in Johannesburg offering a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications across eight faculties.

University of Pretoria (UP)

Public university: One of South Africa's largest research-intensive universities, offering undergraduate and postgraduate study across nine faculties from its main campus in Hatfield, Pretoria.

University of South Africa (UNISA)

Public university: Unisa is Africa's largest open distance learning university, offering accredited undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications entirely by distance so students anywhere in South Africa (or abroad) can study without relocating or attending classes in person.

University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)

Public university: Wits is a research-intensive public university in the heart of Johannesburg, drawing on its mining-school origins to offer highly competitive undergraduate programmes across commerce, engineering, health sciences, humanities and science.

Vaal University of Technology (VUT)

Public university: Vaal University of Technology (VUT) is a public university of technology in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, offering career-focused diplomas and a smaller number of bachelor's degrees across science, engineering, management and human sciences.