1. The minimum admission requirement to enrol on a MANCOSA undergraduate programme is a South African National Senior Certificate with appropriate subject combinations and levels of achievement for certain programmes. Each programme however will have additional admissions and selection criteria as per the MANCOSA Prospectus.

  2. International students who have completed their secondary school education in their respective countries may apply for admission. Those who have completed the Cambridge General Certificate of Education (GCE) through the O and A level system must have a combination of both O and A level subjects in order to qualify for admission to an undergraduate programme.

  3. The minimum entry requirement onto a postgraduate programme is an appropriate Bachelor’s Degree or a recognised equivalent qualification. Each programme will have additional admission and selection criteria which can be found in the MANCOSA Prospectus.

  4. An alternative access route is available in exceptional circumstances for mature-age applicants or via Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), for applicants who do not meet the minimum entry requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. An acceptance of a RPL candidate or granting of a mature-age exemption is based on MANCOSA’s RPL policy which is subject to the approval of the Student Recruitment, Selections and Admissions Committee (SRSAC) and RPL Committee respectively.

  5. Programme titles, the NQF levels, credits and admission criteria are subject to change, according to the requirements of the DHET, SAQA and/or the Council on Higher Education (CHE) and the Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF).

  6. Certified copies of all documents submitted must have been commissioned within the last 12 months.

  7. If an applicant submits inauthentic and/or fraudulent documents to MANCOSA, formal legal action may be instituted by MANCOSA against such an applicant