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UCT Admission Contact Details
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UCT splits admissions between one central mailbox and a mailbox per faculty, and it asks explicitly that you do not send the same query to more than one of them. Its own words: misdirecting queries may cause delayed responses.
UCT admissions contact details
- Admission requirements and applications: admissions@uct.ac.za
- Student records, transcripts, confirmation letters and verifications: reg-records@uct.ac.za
- Switchboard: 021 650 9111
- Apply online: applyonline.uct.ac.za
- Postal: University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701
Degree and course content questions are not admissions questions. UCT directs those to the faculty handbooks and faculty websites, because the requirements for a specific programme live there and change year to year.
Faculty admissions numbers
- Commerce: com-faculty@uct.ac.za, 021 650 4375 or 021 650 4369
- Engineering and the Built Environment: ebe-faculty@uct.ac.za, 021 650 2699
- Health Sciences undergraduate: fhs-ug-admiss@uct.ac.za, 021 650 3020 or 021 650 1114. Postgraduate: fhs-pg-admiss@uct.ac.za
- Humanities undergraduate: hum-ugrad@uct.ac.za, 021 650 2717. Postgraduate: hum-postgrad@uct.ac.za, 021 650 2691
- Law: law-studies@uct.ac.za, 021 650 3086. Science: sci-science@uct.ac.za, 021 650 2712
- Graduate School of Business: info@gsb.uct.ac.za, 021 406 1922
The Centre for Higher Education Development, on ched@uct.ac.za and 021 650 2645, handles the extended and academic development programmes, which have their own admission route.
The enquiry form, and which category to pick
UCT runs a single enquiry form on its Enquiries page with a query-type selector, and choosing correctly is what routes it. The categories are orientation, UCT Online High School, admissions and applications, academic and student records and transcripts, careers, fees, IT queries, student housing, Vula and Amathuba queries, PeopleSoft queries, website issues, GetSmarter courses, and general queries. Picking “general” for an admissions question sends it to the slowest queue.
Before you apply
- Check the key dates page. UCT publishes application closing dates separately from the application procedure, and they differ by programme.
- Check eligibility and admission requirements before applying rather than after; UCT publishes them per qualification.
- Fees and funding are a separate department from admissions and will not be answered on the admissions mailbox.