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The university’s new Avenue I S E INCOME 2019 Almost a third (36) of the country’s NRF Road Residence in Mowbray will S 30% people provide 500 additional student beds 3 739 million A-rated researchers, who are international s t when it’s opened in 2021. leaders in their fields of research, are at or u State subsidy Tuition fees Other d affiliated to UCT. e g n L ts in a r >6 900 undergraduates w e e – over 41% – received financial in 18% of SA’s SARChI chairs g support in 2019. n 0.9% 2.2% 3.2% 18% H E 3.2% 1.8% A total of 43 of the country’s SARChI chairs um (South African Research Chairs Initiative) are held anities 4.0% Massive open 1.9% by researchers at UCT. 2.4% online courses 5.8% (MOOCs) expenses 63.2% 23 MOOCS are currently >1.2 million 11.4% Research and innovation in numbers 29 272 students and 4 928 staff running at UCT and have attracted more than print volumes and In 2019 UCT was home to 29 272 students (16 699 undergraduates, R1.77 billion R42.6 million 280 000 participants 11 671 postgraduates) and 4 928 staff (1 184 academic and an estimated 54 km value in external in accumulated income from over 100 different 3 744 professional, administrative support and service staff). of shelf space are research contracts since 2001 from intellectual countries across the globe. Over the course of the year, anywhere between 100 and approved in 2019 property commercialisation available at UCT 1 000 students are employed by the university. Libraries. EXPENDITURE 2019 R3 668 million active inventions, with 66 patent 2 student societies 25 km Staff and related costs Administration and operating expenses applications filed and 28 patents 191 are active Financial aid and scholarships Library acquisitions, granted in 2019 100+ The total size of the UCT campuses, including books & journals Maintenance Rates and utilities About on campus, divided into its satellite campuses in Observatory, home to Jammie Shuttle Computers, furniture and equipment five categories: academic, Grants to Research Enterprise Grants to student housing and the Faculty of Health ; Gardens, where national/cultural, faith, special interest the Baxter Theatre Other costs (incl. depreciation) 01 UCT >R100 million 2 163 and political. Students can choose to the Hiddingh campus for fine art, film, media, of equity in spin-off research contracts participate in almost 40 sporting codes, and drama studies is located; and the Atlantic companies in 2019 signed in 2019 including such diverse sports as jiu jitsu, fencing, rowing and rugby. Seaboard, where the Graduate School of Business’ Breakwater campus is located. Where do our students Welcome to UCT A brief history Transformation “I believe that this is a come from? UCT aspires to become a premier academic meeting The boys’ high school that became Africa’s Hall great time to be at UCT. point between , the rest of Africa and Memorial Hall, previously Jameson Memorial Hall, has been top-rated university. renamed the Sarah Baartman Hall to lift her up as a potent Across South Africa and the world. Taking advantage of expanding global symbol of the new campus community we are building. networks and our distinct vantage point in Africa, The (SAC), UCT’s even the world, the higher we are committed, through innovative research and 1829 predecessor, started as a private secondary of UCT staff were from designated groups education sector is seeking scholarship, to grapple with the key issues of our school for boys in 1829. 74% (ie black people, women and people with natural and social worlds. disabilities) of which 68% were black South Africans. ways to be more inclusive, The University of the We aim to produce graduates whose qualifications opened, and the SAC began preparing its pupils to fund students so that its are internationally recognised and locally applicable, 1873 The Office for Inclusivity & Change (OIC) provides for tertiary education, moving its junior classes to the newly institutional responses to transformation, sexual and opportunities are available to underpinned by values of engaged citizenship and OIC created South African College School (SACS). gender-based violence (GBV), disability and cultural change. social justice. everyone with high academic Along with the country, the SAC grew steadily potential, irrespective of their 1887 and admitted women for the first time. Did you know? Social Responsiveness background. This is a time The SAC transferred all of its school pupils to that brings the prospect of All four executive leaders of the academic enterprise at UCT 1900 SACS, in effect becoming a university college In 2019 UCT was home to 116 social responsiveness 1 are women, including the vice- and three deputy under the University of the Cape of Good Hope. 116 initiatives, covering development, education, making real change happen, vice-chancellors, which is rare in higher education institutions employment, environment, gender, health, inequality and poverty. around the world of contributing to solutions Students come to UCT from The new University of (UCT) made 1918 teaching its first priority with the establishment Social Responsiveness Award that might guide other all over Africa and the world … of five new faculties. The 2018 Social Responsiveness Award was presented to the In 2019 29 272 students were registered for studies at UCT, The university is alma mater to five Nobel laureates: South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) for its institutions and organisations Max Theiler (Medicine), Ralphe Bunche (Peace), Sir Aaron including 23 671 South African students, 2 834 SADC students, 2 The bulk of UCT’s campus moved to the Groote effective portfolio of strategies to curb the disease. Klug (Chemistry), Allan McLeod Cormack (Medicine) and across our nation to do the 1 031 students from the rest of Africa and 1 598 students from Schuur Estate, and its student body swelled by JM Coetzee (Literature). 1928 elsewhere in the world. 65% to over 4 200 students. Each year, the UCT 100UP same. UCT’s place in the 100UP programme prepares While UCT gave increasing support to teaching 100 grade 10, 11 and 12 learners from township world is to be at the cutting In 2019 UCT was ranked first in Africa in all of the five and research, the apartheid regime barred black schools in the for higher education. major world university rankings: Times Higher Education, 1950 edge, to forge into the 3 students from enrolling without government permission. Quacquarelli Symonds, Center for World University Rankings, unknown and the unfamiliar.” US News Best Global Universities and ShanghaiRanking’s The number of black students at UCT fell Academic Ranking of World Universities. PROFESSOR 1968 to 411, from 552 just 10 years earlier. When Teaching and Learning UCT revoked the appointment of a black lecturer, 65 668 students wrote the National Archie Mafeje, student outrage boiled over, resulting Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe took up her office as the university’s Benchmark Test (NBT), which spanned Vice-Chancellor in a nine-day sit-in at the Bremner building. 4 sixth chancellor on 1 January 2020. She is the second black 728 sessions in 91 venues at UCT, facilitated by the Centre for woman to hold the position, having taken over from Mrs Graça Educational Testing for Access and Placement (CETAP). Machel, who served the institution from 1999 to 2019. UCT students increasingly opposed 1969–1985 apartheid policies, clashing more directly with police both on and off campus. Despite this State-of-the-art classrooms UCT is a member of a number of global university networks, turbulent environment, UCT strengthened teaching and research Close to 100 of UCT’s teaching venues include document 5 including the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), by providing more facilities and new buildings to house them. cameras, data projectors, customised lecterns, and built-in the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and PCs – enabling flexible delivery of course content. Lecture CONTACT US The waning of apartheid opened recording and a comprehensive learning management system the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN). General enquiries: +27 21 650 9111 … and when they graduate they are provide further tools to optimise teaching and learning at UCT. welcome anywhere. 1985–2020 the way for increasingly rapid transformation of the campus community, even before the Admissions office: +27 21 650 2128 After graduating, UCT students take up positions in every first democratic elections in 1994. Making a sustainable, MOOCS sector of the economy, around the world. UCT’s Development uct.ac.za positive impact in higher education and society now drives 23 massive open online courses are currently running at UCT and Alumni Department is in contact with over 170 000 alumni the university’s vision. This is supported by three pillars that and have attracted more than 280 000 participants from in 164 countries, some 120 000 of whom live in South Africa. @UCT_news are the very foundations of the academic project: excellence, over 100 different countries across the globe. transformation and sustainability.