A common first-year programme was introduced from 2019 across all professional engineering disciplines.

The academic curriculum is regularly modernised in order to ensure that it meets the highest professional and academic standards and that it simultaneously remains locally relevant and applicable.

Many engineering students entering the engineering programmes have limited knowledge of the different branches of engineering and only gain the knowledge to make an informed choice of the programme during their first.

A first-year curriculum that is identical for all programmes allows students to amend their choice at the end of the first.

First-year
Engineering Chemistry
Introduction to the Engineering Profession
Engineering Analysis and Design IA and IB
Engineering Mathematics IA and IB
Engineering Physics IA and IB
Applied Physics I
AND, one of the following courses:

Elementary IsiZulu Language and Culture IA
Elementary Sesotho Language and Culture IA
The International Relations of South Africa and Africa
Introduction to Political Studies
Southern Africa in the Era of Globalisation
Identity and Society
Introduction to Ethics I
Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality
Global Encounters and Contemporary Realities IA
Second-year
Data Structures and Algorithms
Electrical and Magnetic Systems
Software Development I
Signals and Systems I
Microprocessors
Electronics I
Electric Circuits
Mathematics II
Physics II (Electrical)
Vacation Work I (Electrical)
Third-year
At the beginning of the third, students can choose to continue with Electrical Engineering or register for Information Engineering.

Computational Mathematics
Electronics II
Probabilistic Systems Analysis
Software Development II
Signals and Systems IIA AND IIB
Data and Information Management
Control I
Electrical Engineering Design
Economics of Design
Communication Fundamentals
Vacation Work II (Electrical)
Fourth-year
Measurement Systems
Information Engineering Design
Information Engineering Laboratory
Selected Topics in Sociology
Systems Management and Integration
AND, any three courses from the following:

Software Engineering
Software Development III
Control II
Network Fundamentals
Data-Intensive Computing in Data Science
Full Stack Quantum Computing

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it