PhD in Electrical or Electronic Engineering

Students in the Electrical or Electronic Engineering program from Stellenbosch University without a prospective supervisor will not be considered. If you meet the above admission requirements, you therefore first have to find a prospective supervisor before applying.

Features

• You can look through our research activity and staff pages and reach out to individual supervisors to hear if they would be willing to supervise you.
• Note that supervisors are limited by whether they have bandwidth to supervise students and by whether your research interests synchronize with their fields of expertise. Supervisors get a lot of student queries, so do your homework beforehand: it goes a long way if the student has done a bit of background investigation on a prospective supervisor before contacting them.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• Control Systems
• Satellite Systems
• Biomedical Electronics
• Electrical Energy
• Smart Grid Technology
• Computational Electromagnetics

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL iBT: 79

General requirements

• Student finds a prospective supervisor who is willing to supervise them (see above).
• The student and supervisor complete and sign the departmental application form (available to the supervisor here).
• All students apply on SUNStudent.
• The supervisor submits the following to the Postgraduate Administrator.
• Only after these details are received from a supervisor, does the Postgraduate Administrator send the required documents to the E&E Management Committee for consideration.
• If accepted, the Management Committee notifies the prospective supervisor, who then notifies the student.
• The Postgraduate Administrator notifies the university’s Registration Office, which then sends out emails notifying the student of their formal acceptance.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in AUD and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

• International (non-residents): 3,031 AUD / year (≈ 35,085 ZAR / year)
• Domestic (citizens or residents): 3,031 AUD / year (≈ 35,085 ZAR / year)

Living costs

Stellenbosch, South Africa: 659-919 AUD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.