UCT remains the top university in Africa, holding its position at ninth in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings.
Orientation is a set of programmes designed to introduce first-year students to the different facilities and unique aspects of university life. It usually begins with parent orientation, where the parents of new students are invited to familiarise themselves with the university. Parent orientation will be live-streamed on the UCT website.
UCT’s researchers have been analysing the causes of the current drought, looking into water usage in the city and on campus, and finding ways in which we can save water now for a sustainable future.
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
UCT is an inclusive and engaged research-intensive African university that inspires creativity through outstanding achievements in learning, discovery and citizenship; enhancing the lives of its students and staff, advancing a more equitable and sustainable social order and influencing the global higher education landscape.
2018–2019 World University Rankings
1st IN AFRICA
156 Times Higher Education
200 Quacquarelli Symonds
UCT’s 2019 Summer School is now open for booking through Webtickets. Offering all the intellectual stimulation of university study without the exams or entrance requirements, UCT's Summer School has been part of the fabric of the city for 68 years. More than one hundred short courses cover everything from astronomy to zoology, music to current affairs. Discover the mysteries behind the human genome, neuroscience, spaceflight, sharks and the 1918 flu. Explore Islamic philosophy, land reform, Eastern Europe, great literature and famous art.
This course will revise the statistical concepts relevant to regression analysis. It will introduce Ordinary Least Squares regression and discuss how and why it is used. Violations of the assumptions required for OLS and their implications will also be covered. Prerequisites: Course participants should be familiar with Stata and with basic statistical tools.
This course is aimed at postgraduate students (Masters and Ph.D.), researchers, and officials in state agencies wanting to analyse social surveys using Stata.
Prerequisites: Course participants should be familiar with Stata and with basic statistical tools (such as regression analysis).
