Postgraduate Studies

The Faculty of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand is committed to producing research of international standard reported in the leading peer-reviewed literature.  A great deal of the research outputs are produced during the course of the training of postgraduate students.  Whilst MSc degrees by Course Work and Research Report are produced in a number of Schools in the Faculty, the emphasis is undoubtedly on the MSc by research leading to a dissertation, and the PhD, leading to a thesis.

Research in the Faculty of Science covers a wide range of fields in the biological, physical, earth and mathematical sciences and there are multidisciplinary research programmes that cut across the boundaries of the University’s five faculties.  The Faculty encourages its researchers to collaborate with researchers at other South African institutions, and at institutions around the world.  

In several of these disciplines we rank amongst the top 1% of institutions world-wide based on the impact of our research as determined by a citation analysis.