University of Cape Town

Professor Sir Angus Deaton will deliver the first annual Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture, titled “The politics of numbers: economists confront poverty and inequality”. Join us online at 18:00 SAST on Monday, 3 July 2023.

[PHOTO MONTAGE] About 450 medical students are expected to graduate during a ceremony on Friday, 7 July 2023, hosted in the Sarah Baartman Hall.

For Women’s Month, the university’s focus is on celebrating womxn and womxn’s achievements. This year we celebrated Women’s Day on Thursday, 10 August 2023.

UCT’s 57th annual TB Davie Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, vice-chancellor of the University of Fort Hare (UFH), on 23 August 2023. A recording of the lecture is now available.

UCT remains the top university on the continent, according to ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023.

The University of the Future (UoF) challenge, a call for inspirational and innovative ideas from across the university community, is now open. Ideas by groups need to be submitted by 31 October 2023.

Professor Jacqueline Yeats will present a lecture titled “Value(s), Vices and Voice – how the evolution of modern company law reflects shifting societal values in a changing world” at 17:30 SAST on Wednesday, 27 September 2023.

UCT together with its many partners has a number of bursaries on offer for many undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.