The numbers are up for graduating students

12 December 2012

They're going to come out in their finest finery, loved ones in tow, graduation gowns proudly draped around their shoulders. And, from 12 to 18 December, they will come in their thousands. Well, 5,518* of them, anyway. Of these, the Faculty of Humanities will boast the largest contingent, well over 1,800, followed in descending order by the Faculties of Commerce (business leader Maria Ramos will speak at one of the faculty's ceremonies, on 14 December), Engineering and the Built Environment, Science, Health Sciences, and Law. (See tables below.)

Commerce Dec 2012* Dec 2011
Diplomas & certificates 528 523
Bachelors 778 705
Honours 107 101
Master's 29 38
MBA 3 3
Doctoral 17 7
Total 1,462 1,377

Engineering & The Built Environment Dec 2012* Dec 2011
Diplomas 8 7
Bachelors 551 502
Honours 104 121
Master's 122 134
Doctoral 9 10
Total 794 774

Health Sciences Dec 2012* Dec 2011
Diplomas 158 82
Bachelors 295 288
Honours 76 69
Master's 75 70
Doctoral 21 26
Total 625 535

Humanities Dec 2012* Dec 2011
Diplomas & certificates 369 469
Bachelors 980 918
Honours 350 368
Master's 99 94
Doctoral 15 15
Total 1,813 1,864

Science Dec 2012* Dec 2011
Diplomas 3 0
Bachelors 387 313
Honours 170 162
Master's 69 59
Doctoral 39 23
Total 668 557

Law Dec 2012* Dec 2011
Diplomas 5 3
Bachelors 108 104
Master's 38 54
Doctoral 5 5
Total 156 166

And to cap it all, UCT will celebrate the graduation of over 100 PhDs.

But the graduation ceremonies will allow UCT to celebrate not just the passing out of undergraduate and postgraduate students, but a number of other notable events as well.

So, for example, UCT will award honorary degrees to five academic and public figures who through their work have made their indelible marks on society: world-renowned artist Marlene Dumas, pioneering physicist Jonathan Ellis, legal expert Nicholas Haysom, and alumni Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones of the Handspring Puppet Company.

In turn, Professor John Higgins (15h00, 12 December), Dr Zelda Woodman and Dr Jeremy Wanderer (both in absentia) will be presented with Distinguished Teacher Awards, recognising their excellence in teaching.

The university will also present its Social Responsiveness Awards for 2012. These will go to Associate Professor Mohamed Adhikari (15h00, 12 December), for his service to his alma mater, Harold Cressy High School, through a number of heritage projects; and the Environmental Evaluation Unit (10h00, 17 December) for the work it does to enhance the governance of complex human-ecological systems through collaborative interdisciplinary research across natural resource sectors, mostly in poor and marginalised communities.


Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Please view the republishing articles page for more information.


Monday Monthly

Volume 31 Edition 20

12 Dec 2012


Download PDF

Graduation News

Previous Editions

TOP