South Afica

University of Cape Town

General Information:

The University of Cape Town is a vibrant academic community of some 16 000 students and 4 500 members of staff. The main campus occupies a beautiful site on the slopes of Table Mountain. It is a comprehensive university offering a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. It is also a major centre for research and we have exchange agreements and links with universities on the African continent and throughout the world. http://www.uct.ac.za has several information about UCT.

Department in focus:

The Department of Geomatics at UCT is the oldest Geomatics/Surveying department in South Africa, and it is also the first to embrace the expanded discipline of Geomatics. The Department offers a four-year BSc (Survey) degree, awarded by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. The department offers Masters and Doctoral degree too. The under graduate is a four year course extensively deals with GIS. The department has its own GIS laboratory and with some facilities and gives some GIS courses. There is more about GIS in university of Cape Town on http://www.gis.uct.ac.za