Brand new 'Master of Neuroscience' course opens applications for 2025.

Register for the info session here and the online application process here. 

Further details in the following downloadable pdf:

About the Course

Neuroscience integrates with many other disciplines in biological, engineering, and social sciences. The current programme is therefore structured to accommodate a variety of students from diverse academic disciplines who are interested in pursuing neuroscience-related careers. In a way, it will serve as a gateway or bridging degree, providing students who already hold a Bachelor Honours Degree (or other NQF level-8 qualification, see Entry Requirements) with the relevant foundational knowledge, analytical training, and ethical sensitivity to understand the broader neuroscience field and/or pursue further research. Yes, this is the programme you have been waiting for!

The MNeuroSc will run as a full-time contact programme with a minimum time to completion of one year. To accommodate students unable to complete all coursework in one year, it will also be offered part-time over two years.

Because the programme brings together scientists who are leading world-class research in the field, students will enjoy interaction with internationally renowned researchers and clinicians. Furthermore, students will be able to take advantage of state-of-the-art resources at the Neuroscience Institute, including clinical spaces and meeting rooms, computer laboratories, neuroscience laboratories, a newly-established brain bank, and neuroimaging equipment housed in the Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre (CUBIC).

We envision that this programme will draw students from across South Africa and further abroad, contributing much-needed diversity to the field and broadening the currently limited access to neuroscientific training in Africa.