Humanities

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Performance - audition requirements
Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television - portfolio requirements
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts - questionnaire and portfolio requirements 
Bachelor of Music - audition requirements
Bachelor of Arts in Digital Arts - questionnaire and portfolio requirements

All applicants to Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology are required to write the National Benchmark Test (NBT). Please go to www.nbt.ac.za for more information. Click here for the NBT Test Dates

Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology applicants are required to write the NBT on or before 18 August.

Only the first attempt of the NBT within the most recent year is considered, and NBT results are valid for three years. 

Engineering and the Built Environment

Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) - application exercises

Health Sciences

Applicants to the Faculty of Health Sciences are required to write the National Benchmark Test (NBT). Please go to www.nbt.ac.za for more information. Click here for the NBT Test Dates. Wits requires the NBT to be written by 18 August in order to provide early feedback on applications. Only the first attempt of the NBT is considered within the most recent year, and NBT results are valid for three years.

A Job Shadowing Certificate of Attendance is required for the below degrees. Please complete and uploaded via the self-service portal:

• 2025 Job Shadowing Occupational Therapy Certificate of Attendance
• 2025 Job Shadowing Physiotherapy Certificate of Attendance
• 2025 Job Shadowing Dentistry Certificate of Attendance
• 2025 Job Shadowing Oral Health Sciences Certificate of Attendance

Science 

Applicants to the Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree are required to write the National Benchmark Test (NBT) by 31 October.  The tests were designed to measure students’ levels of proficiency in Academic Literacy, Quantitative Literacy and Mathematics. There are two tests of three hours each. The first test is the Academic and Quantitative Literacy test (AQL), the second test is the Mathematic test (MAT).

Science applicants are required to write both these tests. Only the first attempt of the NBT is considered within the most recent year, and NBT results are valid for three years. Click here for the NBT Test Dates.

If you have not yet matriculated

• Your final Grade 11 report should be signed and stamped by your school principal (a hard copy is not required).
• Applicants with international qualifications should upload a certified copy of a recent school report, as well as all previous results.

If you have already matriculated (even if you are rewriting some subjects in 2024) but have not attended any university

• Include the the subjects you are rewriting. Note that only one upgrade attempt is considered.
• Attach certified copies of your matric certificate/foreign school leaving certificate/s. 

If you have attended a university/tertiary institution other than Wits, submit your school leaving results and a certified copies of all academic records with a certificate of good conduct (even if the qualification was not completed).

• Ask that institution to send your full academic record and a certificate of good conduct to the Student Enrolment Centre (SEnC) directly.
• Send a copy of your published results for the current year which should be stamped by the institution's Registrar and signed by the Faculty Officer.
• A statement of credits/credit certificate/examination results is NOT acceptable.

If you attended a foreign university and wish to apply for exemptions for certain courses

• You must submit, in English, the syllabuses / course outlines, certified by that university.