Africa's highest-ranked university, world-renowned for medicine, climate science, and African studies.
- Admit rate
- 25%
- Selective
- SAT middle 50%
- Not published
- Holistic review
- Intl. tuition
- $10,650
- per year, before living costs
- Average GPA
- 3.75
- unweighted
Where do you stand?
This college reviews applicants holistically and publishes no SAT range. Compare your GPA with its average instead.
Admitted students average a 3.75 unweighted GPA (or its equivalent).
Popular majors
- Groote Schuur Hospital (First Heart Transplant)Biology, Health & Pre-Med
- African Climate & OceanographyMath & Natural SciencesHighly regarded
- Development Studies & LawSocial Sciences & LawHighly regarded
Highlights
- Consistently ranked the #1 university on the African continent across all major world rankings
- Site of the world's first human heart transplant performed by Christiaan Barnard in 1967
- Spectacular Upper Campus situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak overlooking Cape Town
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