Walter Sisulu University WSU Faculty of Business Sciences

These programmes aim to produce highly skilled graduates, innovative new products and knowledge through courses, programmes, community and research projects that are carefully designed for this purpose.
The programmes also actively engage many of these and other graduates in innovation, utilizing the envisaged WSU science and technology campus, commonly referred to as the TechnoPark, to generate marketable new knowledge and products and further incubate these to generate profitable SMMEs (Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises).
In this way, the programmes will gradually move away from the philosophy of focusing on the generation of only highly skilled graduates that are released as job seekers into the public and private sectors, towards the philosophy of generating small and medium micro-enterprises, and these will migrate into the private sector as job creators.
Concomitantly these programmes will also maintain a high level of research unit productivity and therefore help to shift WSU from the traditional focus on the production of highly skilled graduates to the proliferate production of new knowledge through research units.
Of course, the programmes will, as part of its commitment to the career needs of the communities and industries that it serves, continue its tradition of producing highly skilled graduates who will take up high level positions in the public and private sectors.
Programme research niche areas include:

– Earth and environmental sciences for sustainable development

– Engineering and technology for sustainable development

– Physical sciences for sustainable development

– Life sciences for sustainable development

– Modelling of linear and nonlinear systems with applications.
An extended curriculum programme is designed to equip students who do not meet the minimum admission requirements with the skills which will help them to be successful in their studies.

Walter Sisulu University WSU Faculty of Business Sciences Admission Requirements

Qualification minimum entry requirements

Higher Certificate

• Must meet NC (V) Level 4 statutory requirements
• 40% in either home Language or First Additional
• Language but one must be the Language of Teaching and Teaching (LOTL)
• 50 % in either Mathematics or Mathematics Literacy
• 40% in Life Orientation
• 50% in the four other vocational subjects
• Submit a record of evidence for any subject failed

Diploma

• Must meet NC(V) Level 4 statutory requirements
• 50% in three fundamental subjects including LOTL
• 60% in three compulsory vocational subjects

Bachelor’s Degree

• Must meet NC(V) Level 4 statutory requirements
• 60% in three fundamental subjects including LOTL
• 70% in three compulsory vocational subjects

Walter Sisulu University WSU Faculty of Business Sciences Departments

WSU Faculty of Business Sciences Departments – See Details Below:

1.Walter Sisulu University WSU Department of Accounting and Finance
2.Walter Sisulu University WSU Department of Corporate Communication and Marketing
3.Walter Sisulu University WSU Department of Management and Governance