PhD

Doctor of Science

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 1.09 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 1.09 k / Year(s) Deadline: Sep 1, 2024
201–250 place StudyQA ranking:1548 Duration:2 years

The Faculty of Science is committed to producing highly qualified graduate students and research of international standard reported in the leading peer-reviewed literature.  The Faculty comprises some 240 full time academic staff, about 175 support staff and some 3 700 undergraduate and postgraduate students in ten Schools clustered in four groupings, the Mathematical Sciences, the Physical Sciences, the Earth Sciences and the Biological Sciences.  We host a number of SARChI chairs and A rated academics in the Faculty.

The Faculty is a research-active Faculty. Our acknowledged strengths in research include Materials Sciences and Solid State Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Mining Geology, Theoretical Physics, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Evolution & Behavioural Ecology, Geophysics, and Palaeontology and Archaeology.

In several of these disciplines we rank amongst the top 1% of institutions world-wide based on the impact of our research as determined by a citation analysis. 

Research areas

  • Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
  • Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies
  • Geosciences
  • Mathematics
  • Molecular & Cell Biology. Focus areas: Biochemistry & cell biology, Genetics & developmental biology and Microbiology & biotechnology.
  • Physics
  • Statistics and Actuarial Science
  • A Master of Science from Wits or another university;
  • A graduate of this or another university who holds a degree in another faculty whose curriculum has ordinarily extended over not less than four academic years of full-time study
  • A supervisor from the Faculty of Science must be identified and approached prior to application
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