LMU-SU workshop on Random Discrete Structures

SU features in the 2026 Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject. Continues to be among the best tertiary institutions globally in several subjects. Performed well in Arts and Humanities, Medical and Health, Education...

Inaugural QS World University Rankings: Sub-Saharan Africa released on 12 February 2026. SU academics are the most prolific in Africa when it comes to papers published. SU has the second highest number of academic staff with PhDs in South...

The Faculty of Science annually produces an annual report which gives a comprehensive overview of the year's academic and research activities.

A newly described African species in the magic mushroom family confirms its evolutionary origin as from Africa. Psilocybe ochraceocentrata last shared a common ancestor with P. cubensis approximately 1.5 million years ago. Study sheds new...

Dr Anneke Erasmus is one of 6 women scientists to graduate with a PhD in Physics during Stellenbosch University’s March graduation ceremony this week. She had to overcome several setbacks, including loadshedding and a burst water pipe...

Join us for this Science Café Stellenbosch and meet the physicists behind the world's longest quantum satellite link.

The Faculty of Science conferred a record number of 71 doctoral degrees during 2025. 53.5% of the 2025 cohort are women, graduating with PhDs in the fundamental sciences.

Undergraduate Programmes in the Biological Sciences

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