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University of Cape Town

Public university in Cape Town, South Africa

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About

instance of	public university open-access publisher higher education institution university
inception	1 October 1829
native label	University of Cape Universiteit van Kaapstad (af) iYunivesithi yaseKapa (xh)
language used	English

Location and contact

country	South Africa
located in the administrative territorial entity	City of Cape Town
headquarters location	Cape Town
coordinate location	-33.9575, 18.4606
official website	https://www.uct.ac.za/ · language of work or name: English
official map URL	https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/uctuppercampus.jpg · title: Upper Campus · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/uctmiddlelowercampus.jpg · title: Middle and Lower Campus · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/ucthealthsciencecampus.jpg · title: Health Sciences Campus · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/uctgrooteschuur.jpg · title: Groote Schuur Hospital & Surrounds · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/ucthiddinghcampus.jpg · title: Hiddingh Campus · file format: JPEG 5 more https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/uctbreakwatercampus.jpg · title: Breakwater Campus · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/UCTresidencesmap.gif · depicts: university dormitory · file format: GIF https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/jammieshuttlemap.jpg · depicts: transport · title: Jammie Shuttle · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/328/contacts/maps/uctcampuses_all.jpg · file format: JPEG https://www.uct.ac.za/main/contacts/campus-maps · title: Campus Maps

People and numbers

count of students	23,500 · sourcing circumstances: circa
employees	5,442
position held by head of the organization	Chancellor of the University of Cape Town

Rankings and recognition

ranking	150 · QS World University Rankings · 2026 166 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026 Earlier figures (13) 171 · QS World University Rankings · 2025 173 · QS World University Rankings · 2024 237 · QS World University Rankings · 2023 226 · QS World University Rankings · 2022 220 · QS World University Rankings · 2021 198 · QS World University Rankings · 2020 200 · QS World University Rankings · 2019 191 · QS World University Rankings · 2018 191 · QS World University Rankings · 2017 171 · QS World University Rankings · 2016 141 · QS World University Rankings · 2015 145 · QS World University Rankings · 2014 154 · QS World University Rankings · 2012

ranking

150 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
166 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026

Earlier figures (13)

171 · QS World University Rankings · 2025
173 · QS World University Rankings · 2024
237 · QS World University Rankings · 2023
226 · QS World University Rankings · 2022
220 · QS World University Rankings · 2021
198 · QS World University Rankings · 2020
200 · QS World University Rankings · 2019
191 · QS World University Rankings · 2018
191 · QS World University Rankings · 2017
171 · QS World University Rankings · 2016
141 · QS World University Rankings · 2015
145 · QS World University Rankings · 2014
154 · QS World University Rankings · 2012

Finances

funder	Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to strengthen ongoing professional development to judicial officers in Africa, through the newly established African Judicial Trainers Network. · 2023 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $394,017 · award rationale: to support the Land and Accountability Research Centre. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $323,290 · award rationale: to support the Centre for Law and Society. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $323,290 · award rationale: to support the Children's Institute. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $345,600 · award rationale: to support the HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa in their work on a continent-wide study into the state of scholarly publishing and dissemination in Africa · 2020 2 more Open Society Foundations · prize money: $422,181 · award rationale: Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. The Constitutionalism Fund has a mandate to support the efforts of civil society organizations to promote and advance constitutionalism in South Africa. In addition, emphasis is placed on internal institutional transformation such that key organizations in the field reflect the national demographic. This mandate also extends to the sustainability and transformation of the field more broadly. The grant is made consistent with this mandate and in support of the Grantee’s submitted and approved proposal and budget · 2019 Open Society Foundations · prize money: $351,818 · award rationale: Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. The Constitutionalism Fund has a mandate to support the efforts of civil society organizations to promote and advance constitutionalism in South Africa. In addition, emphasis is placed on internal institutional transformation such that key organizations in the field reflect the national demographic. This mandate also extends to the sustainability and transformation of the field more broadly. The grant is made consistent with this mandate and in support of the Grantee’s submitted and approved proposal and budget · 2019

funder

Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to strengthen ongoing professional development to judicial officers in Africa, through the newly established African Judicial Trainers Network. · 2023
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $394,017 · award rationale: to support the Land and Accountability Research Centre. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $323,290 · award rationale: to support the Centre for Law and Society. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $323,290 · award rationale: to support the Children's Institute. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $345,600 · award rationale: to support the HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa in their work on a continent-wide study into the state of scholarly publishing and dissemination in Africa · 2020

2 more

Open Society Foundations · prize money: $422,181 · award rationale: Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. The Constitutionalism Fund has a mandate to support the efforts of civil society organizations to promote and advance constitutionalism in South Africa. In addition, emphasis is placed on internal institutional transformation such that key organizations in the field reflect the national demographic. This mandate also extends to the sustainability and transformation of the field more broadly. The grant is made consistent with this mandate and in support of the Grantee’s submitted and approved proposal and budget · 2019
Open Society Foundations · prize money: $351,818 · award rationale: Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. The Constitutionalism Fund has a mandate to support the efforts of civil society organizations to promote and advance constitutionalism in South Africa. In addition, emphasis is placed on internal institutional transformation such that key organizations in the field reflect the national demographic. This mandate also extends to the sustainability and transformation of the field more broadly. The grant is made consistent with this mandate and in support of the Grantee’s submitted and approved proposal and budget · 2019

Structure and memberships

child organization or unit	FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology UCT Hockey Club African Gender Institute University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Kaplan Centre 8 more University of Cape Town Faculty of Law Michaelis School of Fine Art South African College of Music University of Cape Town Faculty of Science University of Cape Town Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
member of	ORCID, Inc. · October 2023 International Alliance of Research Universities Association of Commonwealth Universities Cape Higher Education Consortium Universities South Africa 8 more arXiv · 2021 South African National Library and Information Consortium · September 2023 Agence universitaire de la Francophonie International Association of Universities Open Education Global Association of African Universities African Research Universities Alliance Worldwide Universities Network
replaces	South African College · since 1874

Other facts

nickname	Ikeys
open data portal	DataFirst

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (1)

image	UCT Upper Campus landscape view.jpg Sarah Baartman Building at University of Cape Town.jpg

Wikimedia and technical details (7)

Commons category	University of Cape Town
topic's main category	Category:University of Cape Town
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:University of Cape Town alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Academic staff of the University of Cape Town
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 · 31 October 2022 Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
IPv6 routing prefix	2a01:4f8:150:8109::/64 2a01:4f8:200:80b2::/64 2a01:4f8:212:17::/64
social media followers	227,822 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 562781948 · 8 February 2023 Earlier figures (3) 221,190 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 562781948 · 27 February 2022 210,323 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 562781948 · 5 January 2021 206,371 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 562781948 · 27 April 2020

Identifiers in other databases (61)

archINFORM person/group ID	35326
ARWU university ID	University-of-Cape-Town
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	11885021h
BIBSYS ID	1079658
Canadiana Name Authority ID	ncf11095792
CiNii Research ID	1140282266677927936 · subject named as: University of Cape Town
Crunchbase organization ID	university-of-cape-town
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)	yyQba · subject named as: 开普敦大学 · last update: 4 August 2023
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)	150387
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID	place/University-of-Cape-Town · subject named as: University of Cape Town
EU Transparency Register ID	230429648487-05 · object named as: University of Cape Town 016135552805-13 · object named as: University of Cape Town
Facebook username	uct.ac.za
FactGrid item ID	Q1762687
FAST ID	1349953
FES digital collections entity ID	370981
Freebase ID	/m/031hxk
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GNS Unique Feature ID	-1217215
Google Scholar organization ID	17312451484749402085
GRID ID	grid.7836.a
HAL structure ID	303907
IATI organisation ID	XI-GRID-grid.7836.a
IdRef ID	026641569
IDU foreign theatre ID	2259
ISNI	0000000419371151
J9U entity ID	987007269216905171
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID	14171-9
KISTI ID	K000205350
Libraries Australia ID	35025700
Library of Congress Authorities ID	n79055109
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	157614274
NACSIS-CAT author ID	DA01268643
National Library of Poland MMS ID	9811536982905606
NL CR AUT ID	ko20191035218 · subject named as: University of Cape Town
NSK (VIAF) ID	000631160
NSK ID	981005721341309366
NUKAT ID	n2016065887
Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100007112 · subject named as: University of Cape Town 501100001338 · subject named as: University of Capetown
OpenAlex ID	P4310315336 · subject named as: University of Cape Town
OpenStreetMap relation ID	2034106
QS World University ID	university-cape-town
Quora topic ID	University-of-Cape-Town
RERO ID (legacy)	A000188139
Ringgold ID	37716 · subject named as: University of Cape Town
ROR ID	03p74gp79
SAHRA heritage site ID	921110057
ScholarGPS institution ID	55083446078933
SNARC ID	Q49185
subreddit	UCT
Times Higher Education World University ID	university-cape-town
U-Multirank university ID	university-of-cape-town
UK Parliament thesaurus ID	18840 · subject named as: University of Cape Town
Union List of Artist Names ID	500312846
UniRank ID	4228
Vatican Library VcBA ID	494/44891
VIAF cluster ID	140147605
X (Twitter) username	UCT_news · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 206,371 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 562781948 · 27 April 2020
‎Scilit organization ID	501
‎Yale LUX ID	group/e4933776-0c05-44da-a074-ff92afbe8e1e

Campuses and colleges

Hiddingh Campus · University