{"id":54817,"date":"2014-03-26T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=54817"},"modified":"2014-03-26T08:15:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T06:15:02","slug":"tuition-fees-for-sa-universities-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/54817\/tuition-fees-for-sa-universities-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition fees for SA universities compared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five South African universities feature in the list of top 100 universities in the Brics and emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to the annual Times Higher Education Brics and Emerging Markets Rankings for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>BusinessTech looks at the 2014 tuition fees at these universities, and how they compare to some of the top institutions, for the following undergraduate degrees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor of Commerce (BCom);<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Arts (BA);<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Science (BSc);<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Law (LLB, undergraduate);<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Science\/Engineering (BEng).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Top South African universities<\/h3>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>#<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>University<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Province<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>University of Cape Town<\/td>\n<td>Western Cape<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>University of the Witwatersrand<\/td>\n<td>Gauteng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>Stellenbosch University<\/td>\n<td>Western Cape<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>45<\/td>\n<td>University of Kwa-Zulu Natal<\/td>\n<td>Kwa-Zulu Natal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>78<\/td>\n<td>University of Pretoria<\/td>\n<td>Gauteng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Tuition fees<\/h3>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>University<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>BCom<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>BA<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>BSc<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>LLB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>BEng<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>University of Cape Town<\/td>\n<td>R44,000 &#8211; R56,000<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R41,500<\/td>\n<td>R45,000<\/td>\n<td>R42,000<\/td>\n<td>R46,500 &#8211; R48,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>University of the Witwatersrand<\/td>\n<td>R37,400 &#8211; R39,130<\/td>\n<td>R30,580 &#8211; R39,380<\/td>\n<td>R37,340<\/td>\n<td>R29,500<\/td>\n<td>R36,500 &#8211; R45,050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stellenbosch University<\/td>\n<td>R29,093<\/td>\n<td>R30,125<\/td>\n<td>R37,218<\/td>\n<td>R36,074<\/td>\n<td>R40,637<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>University of Pretoria<\/td>\n<td>R34,720 &#8211; R39,610<\/td>\n<td>R27,750 &#8211; R32,500<\/td>\n<td>R35,260 &#8211; R44,740<\/td>\n<td>R31,800<\/td>\n<td>R35,270 &#8211; R43,670<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>University of Kwa-Zulu Natal<\/td>\n<td>R31,226<\/td>\n<td>R36,557<\/td>\n<td>R27,619 &#8211; R35,358<\/td>\n<td>R29,098<\/td>\n<td>R34,798 &#8211; R35,101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p><strong>Accommodation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Typical residence accommodation at Stellenbosch University amounts to between R28,690 &#8211; R37,850 for a single, excluding meals, with double room occupants paying about R22,790.<\/p>\n<p>At UP,\u00a0 residence accommodation starts at R29,700 for a single room, going up to R48,700, while a double room costs between R27,500 &#8211; R29,700 in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, Yale University\u2019s undergraduate tuition, room and board would cost $59,800 in 2014-2015, with tuition at $45,800.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global universities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In September 2013, QS, a global career and education network, provided a list of &#8216;Tuition Fees at the World\u2019s Top Universities&#8217; listing the University of Chicago at $45,324. It put Yale University second at $43,100, with Stanford University at $42,690 annually.<\/p>\n<p>Top UK universities were far cheaper, with Oxford and Cambridge costing about $14,000 each.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on universities<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Top universities in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/50569\/top-universities-in-south-africa\/\"><strong>Top universities in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tshwane University of Technology goes mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/29813\/tshwane-university-of-technology-goes-mobile\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tshwane University of Technology goes mobile<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Startup wants to take university online \u2013 and global\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/9229\/startup-wants-to-take-university-online-and-global\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Startup wants to take university online \u2013 and global<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessTech provides a snapshot of the tuition fees for five of South Africa&#8217;s top universities in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,7140,7143,7138,7139,7141],"class_list":["post-54817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-stellenbosch","tag-times-higher-education","tag-uct","tag-ukzn","tag-wits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54817"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54847,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54817\/revisions\/54847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}