Statistics
Students
A total of 25 508 students enrolled at UCT in 2011, the biggest intake in UCT's history, compared to 25 014 in 2010. Of these, 17 312 were enrolled into undergraduate programmes and 8 196 in postgraduate programmes.
The International Academic Programmes Office (IAPO) negotiates international agreements and looks after the needs of international students. More than 4 600 international students from over 100 countries study at UCT. Over half of these hail from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), while almost 1 000 per year are Semester Study Abroad students.
Staff
UCT employs over 5 080 staff members (3 185 permanent staff and 1 895 contract staff), including some 965 permanent academics across the six faculties and the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED). There are also several hundred clinical joint staff in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
UCT has 380 NRF-rated researchers including 30 A-rated researchers. A National Research Foundation (NRF) A-rating is given to researchers who are unequivocally recognised by their peers as leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs.
UCT currently also has five P-rated researchers. P-ratings are awarded by the National Research Foundation to promising young scholars, usually under the age of 35, who have demonstrated exceptional potential to become future leaders in their fields.
Read more about UCT's rated researchers.
