ADP promotes transformation of institutional culture by developing, implementing and disseminating educational strategies that foster equity of access and outcomes.

The AU represents full and part-time academic staff at the University.

Actuarial science is a discipline that involves maths and stats methodology to assess risk in insurance, finance, and other industries as well as professions.

The five-year, multi-institutional and multi-scale ASSAR project combined interdisciplinary scientific research, capacity building, and stakeholder engagement to improve understanding of the barriers and enablers to effective climate adaptation.

SALS offers postgraduate legal education programmes designed to help students excel in their legal careers.

ACEIR explores policies and strategies to overcome African inequality through analytical, empirical, and data-driven research.

AFS runs teaching, research and development programmes in the area of gender and transformation.

AGI is a feminist research institute located within the Department of African Feminist Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.

IFMRM, located in the Department of Finance and Tax in the Faculty of Commerce, conducts research and delivers postgraduate education and training.

APFP is a leading provider of specialist and sub-specialist training for African child health professionals.

African Studies is an interdisciplinary teaching and research cluster located in the Department of African Studies and Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities.

IAA bridges the fields of medicine, psychiatry, psychology and gerontology to explore wide-ranging aspects of ageing.

The department provides a wide range of mainly tertiary services including all major surgical disciplines. The team also manages several high-acuity units, including intensive care, pain management, and post-operative care.

The Division has both diagnostic and academic components. The diagnostic laboratories form part of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) complex at Groote Schuur and Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospitals.

CARESA provides a platform for integrative, interdisciplinary preclinical research, education and training in laboratory animal science and ethics, and related veterinary services.

Anthropology at UCT provides practical training in analysis and methods of discovery that are useful in any activity that demands insight into complex social realities.

This website provides information for applicants to and students of the University of Cape Town.

Application forms and information for applicants to UCT

The Applied Management Section offers programmes and courses focussing on practical application in the business world. 

ATPROM specialises in modelling thermofluid-mechanical components and systems to evaluate novel technologies, improve the efficiency and control of processes, and detect anomalies for condition monitoring purposes.

The department studies cultural, biological, and fossil records to discover how humans and their environment have evolved.

APG offers team-based, cross- disciplinary, design-research oriented forms of teaching and learning architecture, conservation, landscape, city and regional planning, surveying and urban design

Comprehensive Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) guides exploring key concepts, ethical considerations and best practices

The department is a research-intensive department exploring the evolving and transient Universe through scientific leadership in large international projects involving world-class facilities such as MeerKAT, SALT and a wide range of ground- and space-based telescopes.

CARA is an interdisciplinary clinical research programme based in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.