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Postgraduate Enrolment
Regarding total postgraduate enrolments, students in the SET field comprise the majority (46%) in 2020, followed by Business/Commerce (30%) and the Humanities (24%). Postgraduate enrolments in SET have increased by 4% and in Business/Commerce by 6%, but at the cost of a 3% decrease in Humanities enrolments
between 2019 and 2020. Postgraduate enrolments have remained stable at 5% of total headcount enrolment in 2020. Enrolments of Master’s and Doctoral students have been increasing overall since 2018, totalling 1 774 students in 2020 (Figure 7). This represents a 35% increase from 2018, but less than a 0.4% rise from 2019.
Figure 7. Master’s and Doctoral student headcount enrolments, 2018 – 2020
Table 2 presents the postgraduate enrolments by faculty for the period 2018 – 2020.
Table 2: Master’s and Doctoral enrolments by faculty, 2018 – 2020
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2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800 600 400
200 0
397
917
2018
506
1 261
524
1 250
2019 2020 MASTER'S DOCTORAL
Faculty
Master’s Headcount
Doctoral Headcount
2018
2019
2020
2018
2019
2020
Accounting and Informatics
101
139
177
26
24
34
Applied Sciences
99
103
87
40
46
46
Arts and Design
73
88
103
38
55
48
Engineering and the Built Environment
152
184
208
41
47
61
Health Sciences
243
316
293
35
57
59
Management Sciences
249
431
382
217
277
276
TO TAL
917
1 261
1 250
397
506
524
International Student Enrolments
Although the declining trend in international enrolments since 2014 was reversed in 2019, there was a significant decrease in enrolments, from 559 in 2019 to 464 in 2020. This translated into a 17% decrease. For the past 5 years, international student enrolment as a percentage of total enrolments has remained constant at about 2% (1.58% in 2019), but in 2020 this ratio decreased to 1.36%. Of the 464 international students enrolled at DUT in 2020, 50% are from Southern African Development Community countries and 42% from other countries on the African continent. The highest enrolments are from Zimbabwe and the Democratic
Republic of Congo, comprising 49% of total international enrolments. The Internationalisation Strategy will ensure a focus on improving the ratio of international students. For the first time in 2020, DUT welcomed students from Mauritius, France and Montenegro.
Students with Disabilities
The enrolment of students with disabilities has increased over the past 3 years, from 186 in 2018 to 298 in 2020. This represented an increase of 18% relative to 2019. Disabled students comprised 0.87% of headcount enrolments in 2020.
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