• Any person who wishes to register at the College for the first time or after an interruption of studies is required to apply or re-apply for admission. Applications for admission to the program close on the 28th of September of the year prior to the study.

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Admission & Selection Process

Admission
Any person who wishes to register at the College for the first time or after an interruption of studies is required to apply or re-apply for admission. Applications for admission to the program close on the 28th of September of the year prior to the study. 

Admission Requirements

Entry requirements have been set in accordance with the HEQSF (CHE,2013), the Higher Education Act for Minimum Entrance Requirements (Government Gazette No. 32743, 2009), and the Amendments to the Higher Education Act for Minimum Entrance Requirements (Government Gazette No. 42068, 2018).

The Minimum Entry Requirement:

• National Senior Certificate (NSC) or the National Certificate (Vocational) (NCV) with 50% or greater in Mathematics & Physical Sciences, English as well as one additional 20 credit NCS subject.

OR

• All applicants who obtained a school-leaving qualification other than the National Senior Certificate or IEB must submit a Certificate of Exemption from USAf. https://mb.usaf.ac.za/foreign-qualifications/  
• Cambridge requirements: Along with the USAf Exemption Certificate
  AS-Levels: Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and English passed at a C-grade.
  A-levels: Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and English passed at an E-grade

OR

• Alternatively, a Higher Certificate or an Advanced Certificate or Diploma in a medical, veterinary, animal-related, allied health professional, or health sciences cognate field would suffice.

OR

Students who completed a tertiary education qualification in a country other than South Africa should apply for a SAQA evaluation.  https://www.saqa.org.za/evaluation-foreign-qualifications

All candidates from school-leaving qualifications will be required to submit NBT results. 

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) for exemption:

Applicants who meet the entry criteria of a programme and believe that they have acquired the relevant knowledge and experience for a particular module/s through prior experience or other forms of learning (informal), may apply for exemption from those modules through RPL. 

The following guidelines will apply to RPL for exemption:

• RPL applications are evaluated against the modular outcomes of the particular module/s applied for; RPL cannot be used to grant an individual exemption from a full qualification, in terms of the CHE’s policy only 50 % of a qualification may be exempted.
• Exemption/s granted for module/s in higher education that is/are obtained through RPL, do not have any credits assigned to them; and
• Applicants will be required to complete and pass an RPL assessment (minimum of 50%) to be exempted from the module.All applicants who obtained a school-leaving qualification other than the National Senior Certificate or IEB must submit a Certificate of Exemption from USAf. https://mb.usaf.ac.za/foreign-qualifications