Earlyface

The University of Pretoria located in the historic city of Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa, commonly referred to as UP, Tuks, or Tukkies, is the fourth institution of higher learning in South Africa in continuous operation awarded the status of a university.



The University of Pretoria a multi campus public research university. It was originally known as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University. The University of Pretoria was built on 7 suburban campuses.

The University of Pretoria started out with 32 students, 4 professors and 3 lecturers in the Kya Rosa, 270 Skinner Street in a single late Victorian house purchased from Leo Weinthal who was the then owner of is the forerunner to the Pretorian News Newspaper known as The Press.

The University of Pretoria now has over 49 000 contact students and over 10 000 distance learning students with about 4 099 administrative staff on full time appointments.

The University of Pretoria has nine faculties and one business school with activities divided into one hundred and forty departments and eighty five institutes, bureaus and centers.

COURSES AVAILABLE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
FACULTIES
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Gordon Institute of Business Science
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Certificate/Diploma courses

Higher Certificate Sport Science Education
Diploma in Theology.
Degree courses
BAdmin Public Administration
BAdmin Public Management and International Relations
BCom (extended) Extended Programme
BCom Accounting Sciences
BCom Agribusiness Management
BCom Business Management
BCom Econometrics
BCom Economics
BCom Financial Sciences
BCom Human Resource Management
BCom Informatics Information Systems
BCom Investment Management
BCom Law
BCom Marketing Management
BCom Statistics
BCom Supply Chain Management
BEd Foundation Phase Teaching
BEd Intermediate Phase Teaching
BEd Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching
BEng Chemical Engineering
BEng Civil Engineering
BEng Computer Engineering
BEng Electrical Engineering
BEng Electronic Engineering
BEng Industrial Engineering
BEng Mechanical Engineering
BEng Metallurgical Engineering
BEng Mining Engineering
BIS Information Science
BIS Multimedia
BIS Publishing
BSc Architecture
BSc Computer Science
BSc Construction Management
BSc Information and Knowledge Systems
BSc Interior Architecture
BSc Landscape Architecture
BSc Quantity Surveying
BSc Real Estate
BChD
BCMP
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Medical and Surgical Nursing Science: Critical Care: Trauma and Emergency
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Child Nursing Science
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Clinical Nursing Science, Health Assessment, Treatment and Care
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Medical and Surgical Nursing Science: Critical Care Nursing: General
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Medical and Surgical Nursing Science: Critical Care Nursing: Paediatric
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Medical and Surgical Nursing: Operating Theatre Nursing
BCur Clinical Nursing Science Neonatal Nursing Science
BCur Community Nursing Science
BCur Nursing Education
BCur Nursing Management
BCur Nursing Science (Education and Administration)
BDietetics
BNurs
BOccTher
BOH
BPhysio
BRad Diagnostics
BSportSci
MBChB
BA Audiology
BA Fine Arts
BA Information Design
BA Languages
BA Law
BA Speech-Language Pathology
BA Visual Studies
BDram
BMus
BPolSci International Studies
BPolSci Political Studies
BSocSci Heritage and Cultural Tourism
BSocSci Industrial Sociology and Labour Studies
BSocSci Philosophy, Politics and Economics
BSW
LLB
BConSci Clothing Retail Management
BConSci Food Retail Management
BConSci Hospitality Management
BSc Actuarial and Financial Mathematics
BSc Applied Mathematics
BSc Biochemistry
BSc Biological Sciences
BSc Biotechnology
BSc Chemistry
BSc Culinary Science
BSc Ecology
BSc Engineering and Environmental Geology
BSc Entomology
BSc Environmental Sciences
BSc Extended programme – Biological and Agricultural Sciences
BSc Extended programme – Mathematical Sciences
BSc Extended programme – Physical Sciences
BSc Food Science
BSc Genetics
BSc Geography
BSc Geoinformatics
BSc Geology
BSc Human Genetics
BSc Human Physiology
BSc Human Physiology, Genetics and Psychology
BSc Mathematical Statistics
BSc Mathematics
BSc Medical Sciences
BSc Meteorology
BSc Microbiology
BSc Nutrition
BSc Physics
BSc Plant Science
BSc Zoology
BScAgric Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management
BScAgric Animal Science
BScAgric Applied Plant and Soil Sciences
BScAgric Plant Pathology
BDiv
BTh
Bachelor of Veterinary Nursing
BVSc
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA TUITION FEES
The tuition fees payable by the students of the University of Pretoria usually depends on the faculties and courses and may vary from year to year and for each level of study, however the fees are relatively within a given range.


 
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences

1st year: R29,000 – R41,590
2nd year: R26,620 – R44,470
3rd year: R25,200 – R43,510
Faculty of Law

1st year: R34,040 – R40,130
2nd year: R35,670 – R39,460
3rd year: R35,240 – R42,540
4th year: R44 920
Faculty of Theology

1st year: R35,240 – R42,540
2nd year: R25,130 – R29,890
3rd year: R29,880 – R29,010
4th year: R27,990
Faculty of Education

1st year: R27,710 – R46,760
2nd year: R21,890 – R32,690
3rd year: R24,320 – R44,010
4th year: R22,720 – R13,160
Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology

1st year : R29 550 – R55,240
2nd year: R32,830– R52,710
3rd year: R30,140 – R56,060
4th year: R24,300 – R47,550
Faculty of Veterinary Science

1st year: R41,710 – R42,310
2nd year: R42,020 – R52,560
3rd year: R43,840
4th year: R57,470
5th year: R51,290
6th year: R44,481
Faculty of Health Sciences

1st year: R37,590 – R54,370
2nd year: R14,790 – R54,260
3rd year: R22,710 – R56,730
4th year: R15,290 – R49 920
5th year: R46,380 – R54,420
6th year: R54,580
Faculty of Humanities

1st year: R26,790 – R43,700
2nd year: R17,580 – R39,410
3rd year: R25,980 – R38,700
4th year: R22,560 – R48,800
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

1st year: R30,510 – R48,200
2nd year: R22,550 – R43,850
3rd year: R26,580 – R43,850
4th year: R25,510 – R38,810
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
The general admission requirements for admission into the University of Pretoria includes:

For degree courses:

A National Senior Certificate (NSC) offered by Umalusi, with an achievement rating of 4 circa (50-59%) in four recognised NSC 20 credit subjects from either of these subjects
Accounting
Agricultural Science
Business Studies (Business Economics)
Consumer Studies (Home Economics)
Dramatic Arts
Economics
Engineering Graphics and Design (previously Technical Drawing)
Geography
History
Information Technology
Life Sciences (previously Biology)
Mathematical Literacy
Mathematics
Music
Physical Science (previously Natural Sciences)
Religion Studies
Visual Arts
Languages
Prospective students should offer English and/or Afrikaans as a Home Language or as a First Additional Language in addition to any other language of the student’s choice.

A Grade 12 certificate with university exemption is required if Grade 12 was obtained before 2008. For learners in Grade 12, provisional admission is granted based on the results obtained in the final Grade 11 year mark (promotion mark). Please note that the final Grade 12 results remain the determining factor for admission. Also note that the achievement of the minimum requirements does not necessarily guarantee admission to any programmes or fields of study.
FOR INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATES
Non-South African citizens and applicants who do not have a South African National Senior Certificate and wishes to enrol for undergraduate studies at the University of Pretoria should possess a Full or foreign conditional exemption certificate which can only obtained from Universities South Africa.

THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA ONLINE APPLICATION
Applications for admission into the University of Pretoria opens on the 1st of March every year for the next academic session.

Application for admission into the University of Pretoria is done online.  UP applications open on 1 March of the year preceding the year of study.

There are two options for applicants on what to study. Applicants should ensure that they provide their email addresses and postal addresses during the online application to enable the University of Pretoria contact them directly.

This can be filled on the online application. The applicant will be given a student number (EMPLID) when the online application has been processed.

This student number, however, does not imply that the applicant has been offered provisional admission into the University of Pretoria.

The management of the University of Pretoria warns that the school does not use representatives, agencies or agencies during the application process.

Any applicant who chooses to complete his online registration through at agent, does so at his own risk.

Note: candidates who wishes to study the programmes BSc (Arch) Architecture or BSc (Int) Interior Architecture must use the courses as their first choice during the application or forfeit the admission.

Note: the rules are different for distance learning students. To apply for distance learning, visit the university website for distance learning.

School Website: http://www.up.ac.za