List Of Courses Offered At University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)


The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) offers over 3,600 undergraduate and postgraduate courses in English within 5 faculties:

  • Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management: Accountancy, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Insurance and Risk Management, Law, Management, and Marketing.
  • Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment: Aeronautical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Construction Project Management, Electrical Engineering, Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Mining Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Robotics, Town and Regional Planning, and Water Resources Engineering.
  • Faculty of Health Sciences: Biomedical Sciences, Biokinetics, Clinical Medical Practice, Dentistry, Health Systems Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physiology, and Speech and Hearing Therapy.
  • Faculty of Humanities: African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Classical Studies, Communication Studies, Criminology, Drama, English, Fine Arts, Geography, Geoinformatics, History, Information Science, International Relations, Languages and Cultures, Law, Linguistics, Literature Studies, Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Sciences, Psychology, Public Administration, Religious Studies, Social Development, Social Work, Sociology, and Tourism.
  • Faculty of Science: Actuarial Science, Applied Mathematics, Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Genetics, Geology, Geography, Geophysics, Mathematics, Microbiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, Physiology, Statistics, and Zoology.

Wits also offers a number of short courses and certificate programs in a variety of fields.