Overview of the Department

Administratively and academically, the department is located within the Faculty of Science at University of Cape Town.

From a teaching perspective, we offer the following fulltime programmes:

• Bachelor of Science - a 3-year undergraduate degree
• Bachelor of Science Honours - a 1-year postgraduate degree
• Masters in Computer Science (MSc/MPhil) - a 2-year research training degree
• Masters in Information Technology (MSc/MPhil) - a 2-year conversion course
• PhD in Computer Science - a 3-year research degree

Our research is conducted largely within the auspices of three research groupings/laboratories:

• Advanced Information Management
• Collaborative Visual Computing
• Data Network Architectures

Contact Details

Physical Address:

317 Computer Science Building
18 University Avenue
Upper Campus
UCT
Rondebosch
Cape Town
7701

Postal Address:

Department of Computer Science
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch
7701
South Africa

Telephone: +27 21 650 2663

Fax: +27 21 689 9465

Website: http://www.cs.uct.ac.za/

e-mail: dept@cs.uct.ac.za