Master's & doctoral degrees
Applications for admission to master's & doctoral qualifications will be open from 15 September to 6 November 2020. Thereafter, only those qualifications with spaces available will remain open until the end of January 2021 (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 2020 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.
You may apply for the following qualifications outside the prescribed application dates:
Selection degrees |
Selection degrees (qualification codes: 90042, 90119, 90116 and 98420-OP1) 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 Sciences |
MSc in Nature Conservation |
College of Economic and Management Sciences |
Qualifications in the Department of Decision Sciences |
College of Science, Engineering and Technology |
Qualifications in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology (except for Computer Science qualifications) |
Last modified: 2020/09/01