Wits for Research
A World-Class Destination
Postgraduate credentials are becoming increasingly important. Today’s
employers have shifted priorities and suggest that the master’s degree is the
new bachelor’s. The international job market is also more competitive than
ever before. Wits offers you that opportunity to become globally competitive
while ensuring local relevance together with the recognition of having
graduated from one of SA’s leading universities. A university that is renowned
for its high calibre graduates, academic standing and research capabilities.
Wits challenges you to strive towards new knowledge boundaries and
develop original thinking, which we regard as the cornerstone of intellectual
growth.
Did you know?
• Three Wits academics appeared on the 2014 Thomson-Reuters’ most highly cited
authors in the world during the period 2002 to 2012
• Based on citations, Wits is ranked in the top 1% of institutions internationally in
geosciences, chemistry, environment and ecology, physics and plant and animal
sciences
• Nearly one third of our students are postgraduates.
Our five faculties offer programmes and degrees at the Honours, Masters and
PhD level:
• Health Sciences • Science • Commerce, Law and Management
• Humanities • Engineering and the Built Environment.
The University is renowned for its strong multi-disciplinary research approach
in the following areas:
Biodiversity | HIV/AIDS | Evolution of the Species and National Heritage | Cities |
Materials Science and Engineering | Mineral Resources, Exploration and Mining |
South Africa / India | Diseases of the Lifestyle: an emerging African problem | Molecular
Biosciences | Aerospace | Advanced Drug Delivery Technology | Viral Gene Therapy.
Make Wits your first choice for postgraduate studies
apply online: www.wits.ac.za/applications
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