Aeronautical Engineering
Wits offers the only accredited undergraduate Aeronautical Engineering degree on the African continent. While there are other accredited degrees that describe themselves as Aeronautical, ours is the only degree that teaches aircraft design (the others only teach aerodynamics, or structures, or some other component of our full offering). Ours may also be the only undergraduate aircraft design degree in the Southern Hemisphere.
Graduates of this degree programme have gone on to work at Rolls Royce Aero Engines (Justin Mills), Airbus Industries (Byron Mansfield; Arne Schwarck), and NASA (Prinal Naidoo). Some of our Graduates have also started their own companies designing drones with innovative design (Matthew Whalley).