Tshwane University of Technology TUT Postgraduate Prospectus
Tshwane University of Technology TUT Postgraduate Prospectus 2024-2025
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Our University was formed in 2004 following the merger of three technikons. Our merger aimed at redressing
the inequalities of the past by providing access to all our communities and an academic home for all our students.
In that short time, we have grown into the largest contact University in South Africa, with seven faculties offering programmes in science, engineering and technology, business and management, education, humanities
and the arts. We have been ranked by Times Higher Education (THE) in 2018 as one of the top 1000 universities globally and our programmes in engineering in the top 300. THE has also ranked us eighth in South Africa. In 2017, University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) ranked us as the number one University of Technology in Africa. Equally important, as a people’s university our moral purpose is to be the embodiment and custodian of our
people’s aspirations. This strategic intent is foregrounded by the outcomes of our Transformation Summit held in 2017 and subsequent Transformation Framework, which was informed by national, continental and global developmental goals. Our University provides an academic home for all our people, especially for those who are at the margins of society, rural and urban, by maximising access to higher education to address our triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. We adopt a decolonial position as our programmes aim to have a liberating effect by ensuring that our learning becomes a continuum of creation, innovation and technology transfer to serve the aspirations of our communities.
Anchored in the African philosophy of Ubuntu, we are a caring and compassionate University and a site of
ideation, intellectualism and engaged scholarship to effect social change and transformation.
The Tshwane University of Technology is one of the leading universities of its kind in Southern Africa. While the size and scope of this dynamic institution impress, the quality of its teaching, research and innovation, as well as community engagement, is what makes it really stand out.
While Technikon Pretoria was a historically advantaged institution located in the city, technikons North-West and Northern Gauteng were historically disadvantaged institutions located in the townships of Ga-Rankuwa and
Soshanguve respectively. The rationale for the merger was the proximity and overlap of academic programmes. The oldest of the three institutions was Technikon Pretoria, which was formed in 1900 as Irene Technical School, became the Pretoria Trade School in 1909, was the Pretoria Technical College from 1923 until 1979 and was then renamed Technikon Pretoria. Technikon Northern Gauteng (TNG) was established in 1970 as Technikon Northern Transvaal and became Technikon Northern Gauteng in 1980. Technikon North-West was established in 1976 as Setlogelo College and became Technikon NorthWest in 1987.
At the time of the merger, the uniquely South African institutional designation of “technikon” was discontinued in favour of the more internationally accepted “university of technology” designation. It was hoped that the merger would form a platform for more effective planning, which in turn would lead to rationalisation, economies of scale and the development of more needs-orientated programmes for the region. TUT annually enrols more than 50 000 students. Its student population is one of the most demographically representative in the country in terms of both race and gender, reflecting the Rainbow Nation in all its diversity. With almost 12 000 contact students accommodated in residences, TUT is by far the largest residential higher education institution in Southern
Africa.
TUT’s geographic footprint covers three of South Africa’s nine provinces – Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo with campuses located in Tshwane (Pretoria, Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwa), Mbombela, eMalahleni and
Polokwane. Large numbers of students are also drawn from other provinces, as well as neighbouring countries such as Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Swaziland.
The newly merged institution chose a single-site faculty model to signal the creation of a unitary institution and to ensure that staff work together rather than hold allegiances to their erstwhile institutions. This model consolidated the offering of programmes in a particular faculty on one learning site rather than duplicating offerings on all three sites. TUT’s seven faculties are thus spread as follows across the campuses:
• Faculty of Economics and Finance – Ga-Rankuwa Campus
• Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment – Pretoria
Campus, Pretoria West
• Faculty of Humanities – Soshanguve Campus
• Faculty of Information and Communication Technology –
Soshanguve Campus
• Faculty of Management Sciences – Pretoria Campus, Pretoria West
• Faculty of Science – Arcadia Campus, Pretoria CBD
• Faculty of the Arts – Arts Campus, Pretoria CBD
Postgraduate Courses:
- Master’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering
- Master’s Degree in Polymer Technology
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Comparative Local Development
- Master’s Degree (Structured) in Economics in Comparative Local Development
- Magister Technologiae in Internal Auditing
- Master’s Degree in Business Studies in Auditing
- Master’s Degree in Art and Design
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) Drama
- Magister Technologiae in Dance
- Magister Technologiae in Drama
- Magister Technologiae in Musical Theatre
- Magister Technologiae Performing Arts Technology
- Master’s Degree in Art and Design
- Magister Technologiae in Interior Design
- Master in Textile Design and Technology
- Masters in Fine Art
- Master’s Degree in Art and Design
- Master’s Degree in Art and Design Magister Technologiae in Fashion
- Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Master’s Degree (Structured) in Engineering Management
- Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Engineering: Industrial
- Master’s Degree (Structured) in Engineering Management
- Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Engineering: Industrial
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Engineering: Electrical
- Master’s Degree (Structured) in Public Affairs
- Master’s Degree in Public Affairs
- Master’s Degree in Strategic Communication
- Master’s Degree in Language Practice
- Magister Technologiae in Language Practice
- Master’s Degree in Computing
- Master’s Degree in Policing
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Policing
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Business Information Systems
- Magister Technologiae in Business Information Systems
- Magister Technologiae in Information Technology
- Magister Technologiae in Information Technology
- Magister Technologiae in Knowledge Management
- Master’s Degree in Computing
- Master’s Degree in Computing
- Magister Technologiae in Computer Systems
- Magister Technologiae in Information Technology
- Master’s Degree in Management Sciences in Marketing Management
- Master’s Degree in Management Sciences in Entrepreneurship
- Magister Technologiae (Structured) in Entrepreneurship
- Master’s Degree in Master of Management Sciences in Food Operations Management
- Magister Technologiae in Food and Beverage Management
- Magister Technologiae in Food and Nutrition
- Magister Technologiae in Tourism and Hospitality Management
- Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering
Doctoral Degree Courses:
- Doctoral Degree in Engineering
- Doctor Technologiae in Engineering: Chemical
- Doctor Technologiae in Internal Auditing
- Doctoral Degree in Business Studies
- Doctoral Degree in Business Studies
- Doctoral Degree in Art and Design
- Doctor Technologiae in Interior Design
- Doctoral Degree in Art and Design
- Doctor Technologiae in Fashion
- Doctor Technologiae Textile Design and Technology
- Doctor Technologiae Fine Art
- Doctoral Degree in Art and Design
- Doctoral Degree in Engineering
- Doctoral Degree in Engineering
- Doctor Technologiae in Engineering: Electrical
- Doctoral Degree in Journalism
- Doctor Technologiae in Journalism
- Doctoral Degree in Strategic Communication
- Doctor Technologiae in Public Relations Management
- Doctoral Degree in Language Practice
- Doctor Technologiae in Language Practice
- Doctoral Degree in Engineering
- Doctor Technologiae in Engineering: Industrial
- Doctoral Degree in Computing
- Doctor Technologiae in Computer Science and Data Processing
- Doctoral Degree in Policing
- Doctor Technologiae in Policing
- Doctoral Degree in Public Affairs
- Doctor Technologiae in Public Management
- Doctoral Degree in Management Sciences in Food Operations Management
- Doctor Technologiae in Food and Beverage Management
Postgraduate Diploma Courses:
- Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
- Postgraduate Diploma in Credit Management
- Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing
- Postgraduate Diploma in Sport Management
- Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science
- Postgraduate Diploma in Multimedia Computing
- Postgraduate Diploma in Informatics
- Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality Management
- Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Systems Engineering
- Postgraduate Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts
- Postgraduate Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts
- Postgraduate Diploma in Performing Arts
- Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting
- Postgraduate Diploma in Internal Auditing
- Postgraduate Diploma in Economics
- Tshwane University of Technology TUT Undergraduate Courses Offered
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- Tshwane University of Technology TUT Advanced Diploma Courses Offered
- Tshwane University of Technology TUT Diploma Courses Offered
- Tshwane University of Technology TUT Master’s Degree Courses Offered
- Tshwane University of Technology TUT Doctoral Degree Courses Offered
- Tshwane University of Technology TUT Postgraduate Diploma Courses Offered
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