University of Cape Town

UCT is in the top 200 universities worldwide in the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, with four areas ranked in the top 100.

The surge of transgender youth is a worldwide phenomenon as easily accessible information and neuroscientific developments help them understand who they are.

This Youth Month, UCT News will profile young University of Cape Town (UCT) community members who are hard at work across South Africa in an effort to make a difference in society.

UCT leaps up in Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2024 and remains the best university in Africa.

UCT applauds its young affiliates who appear on the ‘M&G’s’ Top 200 Young South Africans list for 2023.

Professor Sir Angus Deaton will deliver the first annual Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture, titled “The politics of numbers: economists confront poverty and inequality”. Join us online at 18:00 SAST on Monday, 3 July 2023.

[PHOTO MONTAGE] About 450 medical students are expected to graduate during a ceremony on Friday, 7 July 2023, hosted in the Sarah Baartman Hall.

For Women’s Month, the university’s focus is on celebrating womxn and womxn’s achievements. This year we celebrated Women’s Day on Thursday, 10 August 2023.

UCT’s 57th annual TB Davie Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, vice-chancellor of the University of Fort Hare (UFH), on 23 August 2023. A recording of the lecture is now available.

UCT remains the top university on the continent, according to ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023.