Statistics
Students
Just under 25 000 students enrolled at UCT in the first half of 2010. Of these, more than 17 000 were undergraduates working on a first degree or undergraduate diplomas and certificates, and over 7 500 were doing a postgraduate qualification.
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 approximately 5 442 staff members including 982 permanent academics across the six faculties and the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED).
UCT has 337 NRF-rated researchers as at 17 May 2011 including 31 A-rated researchers. An 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 three 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.
