Admission Requirements Electrical and Computer Engineering UCT

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Browse the details of Electrical and Computer Engineering and admission requirements at University of Cape Town (UCT). 

Instruction on the Electrical and Computer Engineering is given at the Department of Electrical Engineering. At undergraduate it is a four (4) years degree programme on full time study mode leading to the award of Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BScEng) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Computer is an electronics machine. It is an interconnection of one or more processors, memory units and some other components such as sink fan, hard drive and so on. All this component are connected together electrically, this make it a necessity  for computer engineers to be well grounded in electrical engineering thus the teaching of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCT. So, at University of Cape Town, students are taught the technique of designing, developing and maintaining computer software and hardware and how the computer is powered by electric current.

Listed below is the least qualifications accepted for admission to the undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cape Town. 


Admission Requirements: Holder of NSC.

  • Faculty Point Score (FPS): 500
  • Mathematics: 80% (Minimum)
  • Physical Science:70% (Minimum)

Faculty Point Score (FPS) being the percentage (%) of Mathematic plus percentage (%) of Physical Science plus percentage (%) of English and percentage (%) of three other best matric subjects excluding Life Orientation:

%(Mathematics )+ %(Physical) Science + %(English)+ %(three other best matric subjects)

The overall score is out of 600. Each subjects equal to 100.

Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Cape Town (UCT) is accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA)

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