University of Cape Town

Private Bag, Rondebosch

  • #171 QS Global World Ranking
  • PublicStatus
  • Very HighResearch Output
  • 20,369Total Students
  • 1,489Faculty
  • 2,674Int'l Students

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We are committed to academic freedom, critical scholarship, rational and creative thought, and free enquiry. It is part of our mission to ensure that these ideals live; this necessarily requires a dynamic process of finding the balance between freedom and responsibility, rights and obligations, autonomy and accountability, transparency and efficiency, and permanence and transience; and of doing this through consultation and debate.

About

We are committed to academic freedom, critical scholarship, rational and creative thought, and free enquiry. It is part of our mission to ensure that these ideals live; this necessarily requires a dynamic process of finding the balance between freedom and responsibility, rights and obligations, autonomy and accountability, transparency and efficiency, and permanence and transience; and of doing this through consultation and debate.

University highlights

QS World University Ranking

  • 2012
    #154
  • 2014
    #=145
  • 2015
    #=141
  • 2016
    #171
  • 2017
    #=191
  • 2018
    #191
  • 2019
    #=200
  • 2020
    #=198
  • 2021
    #=220
  • 2022
    #=226
  • 2023
    #=237
  • 2024
    #=173
  • 2025
    #171

Student & Staff

Total students
20,369

26%
74%

International students
2,674

47%
53%

Total faculty staff
1,489

344
1145

Total students
20,369

26%
74%

International students
2,674

47%
53%

Total faculty staff
1,489

1145
344
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Campus locations

Private Bag, Rondebosch, ZA,

Private Bag , Rondebosch , South Africa , 7701

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