University of South Africa

Unisa APS

Unisa adds the NSC achievement levels (1 to 7) of your six best 20-credit subjects, excluding Life Orientation - the same method as UP. Unisa is distance-only: meeting a qualification’s APS and subject minimums does not guarantee a space for qualifications with limited places.

This score means nothing at another university – it can’t be compared with any other university’s.

Checked against: Unisa General Admission Requirements (opens the official page)

3 programmes confirmed (BCom, LLB, BEd Foundation Phase); BSc General and BA not included

Unisa’s admission mechanism is fully confirmed and is the same best-6-subjects-excluding-LO NSC method as UP, so UNISA_APS is registered computable - the first new non-computable-by-default university in this batch to get a working calculator. Unisa is distance-only and explicitly states meeting the APS/subject minimums does not guarantee a space for qualifications with limited places. All 3 programmes’ 2027 application window (17 August - 9 October 2026) is stated directly on their own pages. A generic "BSc General" was found but left out (no specific career fits it meaningfully). Unisa’s "BA" is split across many separately-coded major combinations with no single general page - left out rather than picking one combination arbitrarily; re-fetching one specific BA-major page directly is the next step.

5 more programmes added (BSc General, BSc in Computing, BCom HRM, BA Communication Studies, BSc Agricultural Science: Agricultural Business & Management) - 16 total

RESOLVED 2026-10-01: a direct re-check found eight unlogged programmes already sitting in this file from an earlier, undocumented pass (BSc Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Social Work, two BA Psychology variants, Bachelor of Accounting Sciences, Bachelor of Administration, Diploma in IT, BA major-pairs) - noting the gap here so the log matches the code. This pass added 5 more by direct WebFetch of unisa.ac.za’s own qualification pages (not blocked for this domain, unlike uj.ac.za/ru.ac.za/uwc.ac.za/nwu.ac.za/ufs.ac.za - confirmed by a 404 on a wrong URL rather than a 403). Two candidates were found and deliberately excluded rather than published: the Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science (98051) and the Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching (90103) are both explicitly marked on Unisa’s own pages as "offered until 2028/2029, ONLY for students previously registered" - i.e. closed to new applicants - so BA Communication Studies (90186, confirmed open) was used instead and no second BEd phase was added. BSc (General)’s Physical Science requirement is conditional on whether Physics/Chemistry modules are chosen and is noted as such rather than stated as a flat minimum.

7 more programmes added (BCom Economics, Financial Management, Industrial & Organisational Psychology, Supply Chain and Operations Management; BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics; BSc Mathematics and Information Systems) - 23 total

RESOLVED 2026-10-03: the user pointed at Unisa's full qualifications index page, which is only a directory of ~450 individual qualification links (Higher Certificates through Bachelor's) with no admission data of its own - each standalone Bachelor's degree and the ~200-entry BA major-pair block were pulled out of the raw HTML (curl, since the index page is too large for the WebFetch summarizer to return a complete link list) and cross-referenced against open career_id gaps. Added 6 new standalone BCom/BA/BSc qualifications by direct WebFetch of each one's own page, all confirmed APS 20-21 with the usual English 50%/Mathematics 50% NSC gate. Industrial and Organisational Psychology is a second, more directly-named route into the existing Industrial Psychologist/HR career page alongside unisa-bcom-hrm. Deliberately excluded: Bachelor of Arts in Criminology (98681) - no fitting career_id exists on this site for Criminology specifically, logged here rather than force-mapped. Also left out the dozens of other named BCom specialisations (Marketing Management, Transport and Logistics) and the ~200 BA major-pairs beyond the one representative example already shown, since one representative row per open career slot is already in the file and more would just be duplicate signal at the same APS/requirement.