Wits is known for its work in deep level mining, science, health sciences, accountancy, law, governance, and the humanities, amongst others. It houses five Faculties which comprise 34 Schools. The five Faculties are Commerce, Law and Management; Engineering and the Built Environment; Health Sciences, Humanities and Science.
All Courses
- Accountancy
- Business Sciences
- Economics and Finance
- Law
- Wits Business School
- Wits School of Governance
- Architecture and Planning
- Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Chemical & Metallurgical EngineeringConstruction Economics & Management
- Electrical & Information Engineering
- Mechanical, Industrial & Aeronautical EngineeringMining Engineering
- Anatomical Sciences
- Clinical Medicine
- Oral Health Sciences
- Pathology
- Physiology
- Public Health
- Therapeutic Sciences
- Wits School of Arts
- Wits School of Education
- Human and Community Development
- Literature, Language and Media
- Social Sciences
- Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
- Chemistry
- Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
- Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Sciences
- Geosciences
- Mathematics
- Molecular and Cell Biology
- Physics
- Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University offers approximately 3 600 courses to about 30 800 full-time students, of whom about a third are postgraduate and 55% are female. Almost 65% of all doctoral candidates and about half of all enrollments are in the Science, Engineering and Technology fields. Wits has developed about 130 000 graduates in its 92 years of existence. It has a proud record in that about 87% of all publications are in accredited international journals.
Wits is a diverse, cosmopolitan University that serves as home to thousands of international students from around the world.