Applications for admission to master’s & doctoral qualifications

By | December 6, 2023

Applications for admission to master’s & doctoral qualifications will be open from 8 September to 12 November 2021. Thereafter, only those qualifications with spaces available will remain open until the end of January 2024 (some exceptions apply).

  • Everyone wanting to start a new qualification must apply for admission, including first-time Unisa applicants, Unisa students wanting to apply for a new qualification, students in their final year of a qualification wanting to start a master’s or doctoral qualification, and previously registered master’s & doctoral students who did not register for the 2021 academic year and now wish to continue with their studies.
  • If you are applying for admission to a Graduate School of Business Leadership (GSBL) qualification, please apply for a Unisa student number (unless you previously studied at Unisa towards a formal qualification) and complete the online application process.

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You may apply for the following qualifications outside the prescribed application dates:

Selection degreesSelection degrees (qualification codes: 90042, 90119, 90116 and 98420) have different closing dates for applications and are administered by the respective academic departments, unless otherwise indicated. Only a limited number of students are selected per academic year.
College of Agriculture and Environmental SciencesMSc in Nature Conservation
College of Economic and Management SciencesQualifications in the Department of Decision Sciences
College of Science, Engineering and TechnologyQualifications in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology (except for Computer Science and Information Systems qualifications)
See also  Applications for admission to undergraduate qualifications