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The composition of the graduates by race in 2020 was as follows: Africans 87%, Coloureds 1%, Indians 11%, and Whites 1%. Over the past 3 years it is only the proportion of African students that has increased, from 81% of total graduates in 2018 to 87% in 2020.
Graduation by Major Field of Study
Of the 9 676 students who completed their studies in 2020, 42% were in SET, 44% in Business/Commerce and 14% in the Humanities (Figure 13). Compared to 2019, SET has increased by 2 percentage points and Business/ Commerce has increased by 5 percentage points, while the Humanities has decreased by 7 percentage points. Of the 4 058 total SET graduates in 2020, 1 976 (49%) were female – an increase of 3 percentage points compared to 2019.
Whereas the graduation rate is the number of graduates as a percentage of total headcount enrolments in a reporting year, it is interesting to consider the number of graduates in a particular field of study as a percentage of enrolments within that particular field in a reporting year. Figure 14 refers.
Figure 13. Graduates by major field of study, 2020
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4 275
44%
Busines/ Commerce
14%
Humanities
4 058
1 343
42%
SET
Figure 14. Graduates as a percentage of enrolments within field of study, 2018 – 2020
35 30
25 20 15 10
5 0
32% 30%
28%
31%
25% 26% 24%
25%
24%
SET Business/Commerce Humanities 2018 2019 2020
The ratio of graduates to enrolments in SET and Business/Commerce was roughly 1:4 from 2018 to 2019. However, in 2020 there was a 4 percentage points increase in the ratio of SET graduates to SET enrolments, and a 5 percentage points increase in the same metric in Business/Commerce. In comparison, the number of Humanities graduates as a proportion of Humanities enrolments has decreased significantly, from 32% in 2019 to 24% in 2020.
Postgraduate Graduation
Figure 15 shows the graduation data for Master’s and Doctoral students at the University for the 2018 – 2020 period. The number of Master’s graduates decreased by 1% (2 students), but there was a 33% increase in the number of Doctoral graduates to 60 graduates in 2020. Male students were in the majority at 62% of all Doctoral graduates.
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