UKZN is one of South Africa’s top research-focused universities and one of the largest universities in sub-Saharan Africa, with five campuses in the two cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. This website has been designed for you, our prospective student, to help equip and empower you to make the right degree and career decisions.

The site has been developed for you to interact with us, receive information, enquire and be exposed to the university environment. It will help you in getting information that is specific to your study interests, our first-class facilities and internationally recognised qualifications.  

When you join UKZN, you will be part of a university that has been:

• Named one of the top 100 universities in the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings
• Listed among the top 1000 universities in the world by URAP; and
• Listed as one of the most popular universities in Africa by uniRank.

At UKZN, we empower and inspire students to discover great things from the beginning to the end of their academic career.

When you choose UKZN, you not only choose a rich experience to optimise your potential, but you choose an institution that provides you with the best support to be the best that you can be and to be successful in life. We enable our students to be innovative and to develop the expertise that employers seek.

We also have strong global links and provide our students with the opportunity to develop and grow linkages with our partner institutions around the world.  We give our students the opportunity to develop a global mindset, which then ensures that our graduates are well sought-after by top employers locally and internationally.

We invite you to become a part of the University of Choice where we will support your academic progress and prepare you for a bright future.