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FIRST THING TO NOTE IS UNISA OFFERS Distance education meaning you study from home

 

Undergraduate qualifications

 

Get practical: How to select your qualification

You have now identified the qualifications linked to your career interests and future planning. The next step is to choose the qualification(s) for which you want to apply. This will enable Unisa to evaluate your application and advise you of the outcome.

Unisa's undergraduate qualifications are offered at different NQF levels. You can apply for admission to two qualifications, so you may want to apply for a lower-level qualification in addition to your qualification of choice. If you want to apply for admission to a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree, for example, you may also want to apply for a higher certificate in the College of Economic and Management Sciences to ensure that you meet all the relevant admission requirements. As you progress with your application, you will get a better understanding of the qualification(s) for which you qualify for admission.

If you have completed a higher certificate and want to apply for admission to a diploma or degree, please click here for the list of related qualifications. Please note that completion of a lower-level qualification, such as a higher certificate, is not a guarantee that you will be admitted to the higher-level qualification (eg diploma or bachelor degree), as spaces are limited.

Click here for more information about Unisa's general admission requirements (including equivalency tables for applicants who wrote matric before 2009 and applicants with foreign qualifications).

 

UNISA HIGHER CERTIFICATE AND DIPLOMA  COURSES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE MATHS

Requirements: 
Prospective students who passed with a bachelor's degree, diploma or higher certificate endorsement can apply for higher certificates courses keeping in mind they meet the other requirements. The minimum duration of higher certificate qualifications at unisa is 1 year but students can finish their higher certificates qualifications in 3 years depending on the number of modules taken a year.

Higher certificates serve as bridging courses for students who do not meet the requirements of diploma/degree courses. These qualifications are done for a minimum of one year giving students a strong foundation of the degree qualification. Students who are applying for higher certificates at unisa need to keep in mind of the follow on qualifications they can do after they have successfully completed their higher certificate courses. Below are the requirement of higher certificates qualifications that do not require maths along with their follow on qualifications. You can download the full PDF file of all the higher certificate qualifications with their follow on qualifications https://www.acanet.co.za/medias/unisa-higher-certficate-follow-on-qaulifications/

 

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Higher Certificate in Accounting Science
APS: 14
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualification 
Advanced diploma in accounting sciences

Higher Certificate in Animal Welfare
APS: 15
English: 2
Life science/agricultural science: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualification:
Diploma in animal health

Higher Certificate in Life and Environmental Sciences
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualification:
Diploma in animal health 
Diploma in nature conversation
Diploma in horticulture

Higher Certificate in Banking
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on course/qualification:
Diploma in administrative management

Higher Certificate in Economics and Management Sciences
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualification:
Diploma in explosive management

Higher Certificate in Marketing 
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualification:
Diploma in Human Resource Management

Higher Certificate in Retailing
APS: 15
English: 2Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualification
Diploma in local government finance

Higher Certificate in Tourism Management
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on course/qualification:
Diploma in public administration and management

Higher Certificate in Education (Foundation Phase and Intermediate Phase)
APS: 18
English: 3
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualifications:
BEd in foundation phase
BEd in intermediate phase

Higher Certificate in Education. (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training)
APS: 18
English: 3
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on course/qualification:
BEd in senior and FET phase

Higher Certificate in Archives and Records Management
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts 99311
BA in Communication Science
BA in Community Development 
BA in Creative Writing (Take note 
additional Requirements)
BA in Development Studies 
BA in Government, Admin & Development
BA in International Relations 
BA in Policy Studies 
BA in Political Leadership & Citizenship
BA in Politics, Philosophy & Economics
BA in Visual Multimedia Arts (Take note of the additional requirements)
Bachelor of Music 
(Take note of the additional requirements)
Bachelor of Information Science 
Bachelor of Theology 
Diploma in Public Relations
 

Higher Certificate in Social Auxiliary Work
APS: 15
English: 2
1. A police clearance for criminal convictions checks aligned with the definition of a 'fit and proper person by the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP). Applicants must submit this clearance certificate at the time of application.
2. Two testimonials from credible sources, such as a school leader or a community leader.
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on course/qualification: 
Bachelor of social work

Higher Certificate in Criminal Justice
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualifications:
Any bachelor degree or diploma 
offered by the College of Law

Higher Certificate in Law
APS: 15
English: 2
Duration: 1 year
Closing date: 15 October 
Follow on courses/qualifications:
Diploma in Corrections Management 
Diploma in Law 
Diploma in Policing 
Diploma in Security Management 
Bachelor of Arts in Criminology 
Bachelor of Arts in Forensic 
Science & Technology
Bachelor of Arts in Police Science 
Bachelor of Commerce in Law 
Bachelor of Laws

UNISA DIPLOMA COURSES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE MATHS.

Requirements: 
Prospective students who passed with a bachelor's degree or a diploma endorsement can apply for diploma courses keeping in mind they meet the other requirements. Applicants who obtained a higher certificate in their NSC do not qualify for diploma courses and should opt for higher certificate qualifications. The minimum duration of diploma courses at unisa is 3 years but students can finish their diplomas in 8 years depending on the number of modules taken a year.

Diploma in Tourism Management
APS:17
English: 4
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: Travel agent, tour operator, guest services, tourism information services, education and training, sight-seeing tours and recreation, tourism 
information services.

Diploma in Grade R Teaching
APS: 18
English: 3
proof of employment in Grade R is required as per the Department of Basic Education requirement of the qualification.
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: Grade R teacher in public and private primary schools and early childhood development centres

Diploma in Public Relations
APS:18
English: 4
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: Clerk, public official manager.

Diploma in Corrections Management
APS:18
English: 4
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: application: 15 June.
Possible careers: Correctional services official, skills development officer, 
manager, a security official.

Diploma in Law
APS: 18
English: 4
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: paralegals in law firms, paralegals at justice centres (Legal Aid Board), paralegals at the office of the Master of the Supreme Court, etc

Diploma in Policing
APS: 18
English: 4
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: Employee of SAPS, reservist, security occupation community 
policing, municipal and metro police and a private investigator

Diploma in Security Management
APS: 18
English: 4
Duration: 3 years
Closing date: 15 October 
Job opportunities: Border Patrol Agent, Bounty Hunter, Emergency Management Director, Federal Protective Service Agent, Private Investigator, Secret Service Agent, Security Guard.

MORE INFO ABOUT UNISA

The University of South Africa (UNISA), known colloquially as Unisa, is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's mega universities and the only such university in Africa.

As a comprehensive university, Unisa offers both vocational and academic programmes, many of which have received international accreditation, as well as an extensive geographical footprint, giving their students recognition and employability in many countries the world over. The university lists many notable South Africans among its alumni, including two Nobel prize winners: Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, the University of South Africa (or Unisa as it is commonly known) spent most of its early history as an examining agency for Oxford and Cambridge universities and as an incubator from which most other universities in South Africa are descended. Legislation in 1916 established the autonomous University of South Africa (the same legislation established Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town as autonomous universities) as an "umbrella" or federal institution with its seat in Pretoria, playing an academic trusteeship role for several colleges that eventually became autonomous universities. The colleges that were under UNISA's trusteeship were Grey University College (Bloemfontein), Huguenot University College (Wellington), Natal University College (Pietermaritzburg), Rhodes University College (Grahamstown), Transvaal University College (Pretoria), the South African School of Mines and Technology (Johannesburg), and Potchefstroom University College. In 1959, with the passage of the Extension of University Education Act, UNISA's trusteeship also extended to the five "black universities", namely University of Zululand, University of the Western Cape, University of the North, University of Durban-Westville, and University of Fort Hare. In 1946, UNISA was given a new role as a distance education university, and today it offers certificate, diploma and degree courses up to doctoral level.

In January 2004, Unisa merged with Technikon Southern Africa (Technikon SA, a polytechnic) and incorporated the distance education component of Vista University (VUDEC). The combined institution retained the name University of South Africa. It is now organised by college and by school.

 

Location

Unisa's Muckleneuk Campus is located in Pretoria and is a major landmark of the capital city. It was in 1972 that Unisa moved into its new home on Muckleneuk Ridge having vacated the old quarters in central Pretoria. The complex of buildings was designed by Bryan Sandrock Architects in the 1960s and expresses an international style characterised by monumental proportions and engineering feats like the cantilevered structures. The most striking feature is the long projection from the brow of the hill, supported by a giant steel girder resting on a massive column.

Also in Pretoria is the Sunnyside campus, the main area of student activity. The Florida campus in Johannesburg is Unisa's science campus. The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and some departments of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology is housed here. The science campus contains 12 buildings, a library, two auditoriums and a large study area. It also includes a horticultural centre and a multipurpose research and training facility designed to meet the education and research needs of students in a range of programmes including agriculture, ornamental horticulture and nature conservation.

The university has seven regional centres in South Africa, servicing students in all nine provinces. These are:

Academic community

As one of the world's mega universities, Unisa presents academic offerings associated with both technological and traditional universities. These include, but are not limited to, a combination of career-orientated courses usually associated with a university of technology, and formative academic programmes typically linked to a traditional university.

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