The University of Cape Town (UCT) - a place of learning excellence and cultural history

IIn 1928, Upper Campus was built on land bequeathed by colonialist Cecil John Rhodes. In 2015, calls to have his statue removed turned into a full movement. The statue was taken down and the Fees Must Fall movement spread throughout the country.

The University of Cape Town has some less controversial—but no less famous—alumni. There are three Nobel laureates – author JM Coetzee, biophysicist Sir Aaron Klug, and nuclear physicist Professor Allan McLeod Cormack who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979 for his work on diagnostic imaging. Another famous alumnus is Professor Chris Barnard, the first man in the world to perform a heart transplant.

UCT enrols about 26 000 students annually, 5000 of whom are international students from more than 100 countries, with half of these from our neighbouring SADC countries, and a further 1000 participants in the Semester Study Abroad programme.

UCT is among the top 10 universities in the BRICS countries and is consistently the top-ranked university in Africa.