Apply for your Postgraduate Degree at UCT for 2019

Apply for your Postgraduate Degree at UCT for 2019
As a UCT postgraduate, you will join a community of committed, smart and influential individuals who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge, contributing to the betterment of society, and who will go on to take leadership roles in academia, business and communities in South Africa, Africa and the world. Your postgraduate experience will give you the opportunity to establish networks that span the globe.

10 Reasons why you should study at UCT for your postgraduate studies

1. UCT, with its large population of globally influential researchers, is the leading university in Africa and is ranked among the top 200 in the world.
2. It is also in the top 100 clinical, preclinical and health universities globally and in the top 10 for development studies, area studies and ornithology
3. You will mix with some of the best researchers in the world: just over a third of the country’s A-rated researchers (international leaders in their field) are at UCT
4. UCT’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking (the d-school) is one of only three in the world.
5. We strive to offer our postgraduates an international experience through our wide network of international partnerships across Africa and the rest of the world, including joint doctoral and master’s programmes and mobility opportunities.
6. You will be joining a vibrant international community: UCT is home to over 3 000 international postgraduate students from more than 100 countries.
7. You can make a difference: UCT’s Knowledge Co-op links postgraduates who want to make a difference to community partners with research needs.
8. We can help you: UCT has a dedicated Postgraduate Funding Office, an Office for Postgraduate Studies and dedicated staff serving the postgraduate community in all faculties.
9. The university has an outstanding record of attracting international funding: for example, for many years in a row, UCT has received more funding from the United States’ (US) National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other higher education institution outside the US.
10. Our Upper Campus – frequently ranked one of the most beautiful in the world – offers breathtaking views of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula, a soughtafter tourist destination.

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