Master's Guide
Click on the relevant area to view a list of Master's programmes offered at each of our South African universities, giving you a broader and better understanding of what Master’s degrees are out there.
After graduation, you will be faced with numerous opportunities. Should I take that gap
year and travel the world? Perhaps it is time to start my career? Or perhaps before that, I
should bulk up my credentials and knowledge by studying further?
Fact
The South African higher education system includes 23
public higher education institutions:
• 11 universities
• 6 comprehensive universities
• 6 universities of technology
As of 15 October 2010, there were also 84 registered and 25 provisionally registered private higher education institutions.
These figures for the private higher education
institutions were obtained from the ‘Register of Private Higher Education Institutions’ produced by the Department of Higher Education and Training.