Through its School for Advanced Legal Studies, UCT's Faculty of Law offers postgraduates an unparalleled choice of options in full- and part-time postgraduate studies. We have put together a short video to give you a quick overview of our postgraduate Law programmes. 

DOWNLOAD OUR DETAILED POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES BROCHURE

Our Faculty has a long-standing reputation for academic excellence and an innovative and critical approach to the law, attracting students from countries across the globe. Besides working with top academics, our students also have access to world-class teaching and research facilities, including an extensive law library.

Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Law fall into two main categories:

• Postgraduate Diplomas, Masters degree programmes (LLM or MPhil) by coursework & dissertation, and Professional Masters degrees
• Research degrees which include LLM and MPhil by dissertation; and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by dissertation

For information on funding your postgraduate studies please visit the UCT Postgraduate Funding web pages and the Faculty's scholarship funding page.

PLEASE NOTE: 

For the three-year graduate LLB degree, applicants must select the Faculty of Law when applying.  For the purposes of administration and registrations, this graduate LLB programme is listed as an undergraduate degree.  Applicants can only be admitted to this stream if they are a graduate of UCT or of another university or institution recognised by UCT. For full information on eligibility for the 3-yr LLB programme, please review all the information here and in the official UCT prospectus.

For information on applying to UCT to do the 3-year graduate LLB, please find information at Applying to UCT Law, and also consult the Choose Law booklet.

Postgraduate Orientation and Registration

All the information you need about Orientation and Registration for postgraduate programmes is available on the School for Advanced Legal Studies website. 

ALL POSTGRADUATE REGISTRATION QUERIES must be emailed to lawreg-pg@uct.ac.za -  those sending queries to any other email address will experience a delay in getting a response.

To access a postgraduate programme convenor to assist with academic queries during your registration process, the full list of programme convenors is available on the Postgraduate Specialisations page.