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