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University of Cape Town

Location

Private Bag, Rondebosch, ZA, Cape Town South Africa

Ranking

# 171QS World University Rankings

About University of Cape Town

We are committed to academic freedom, critical scholarship, rational and creative thought, and free enquiry. It is part of our mission to ensure that these ideals live; this necessarily requires a dynamic process of finding the balance between freedom and responsibility, rights and obligations, autonomy and accountability, transparency and efficiency and permanence and transience; and of doing this through consultation and debate.

About University of Cape Town

We are committed to academic freedom, critical scholarship, rational and creative thought, and free enquiry. It is part of our mission to ensure that these ideals live; this necessarily requires a dynamic process of finding the balance between freedom and responsibility, rights and obligations, autonomy and accountability, transparency and efficiency and permanence and transience; and of doing this through consultation and debate.

University information

20,369
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2,674
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1,489
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Tuition fee and scholarships

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Rankings & ratings

University of Cape Town is one of the top public universities in Cape Town, South Africa. It is ranked #171 in QS World University Rankings 2025.

QS World University Rankings

  • 2012
    #154
  • 2014
    #=145
  • 2015
    #=141
  • 2016
    #171
  • 2017
    #=191
  • 2018
    #191
  • 2019
    #=200
  • 2020
    #198
  • 2021
    #220
  • 2022
    #=226
  • 2023
    #=237
  • 2024
    #=173
  • 2025
    #171

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