Welcome to Commerce

We offer two sought-after degrees: a four-year Bachelor of Business Science and a three-year Bachelor of Commerce as well as a range of Doctoral, Masters, Honours and Postgraduate Diploma programmes designed to ensure your success both locally and internationally. I encourage you to browse the webpages of our four departments – Accounting, Economics, Information Systems and Management Studies where you will find courses to ignite your career. You can also read our Commerce Connects newsletter here.- Professor Mike Wormald, Acting Dean

Faculty News and Highlights

SALDRU research shows that wealth gap has widened (08/02/2010) NEW
	The gap between the rich and poor in South Africa has widened, not only between race groups but also within race groups, according to research conducted by the South African Labour Development Unit (SALDRU) in the UCT School of Economics. Full report Read More...
Students blitz city with pure SAX Appeal (05/02/2010) NEW
	UCT students beat the early bird and were out on the streets as early as 05h00 on 4 February, dressed as outrageously as possible to flog the latest issue of SAX Appeal to amused motorists. Read More...
IS outreach to Addis Ababa gets recognition (04/02/2010) NEW
	Professor Irwin Brown of the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cape Town has received honour from the Association for Information Systems (AIS) for his volunteer work in assisting the University of Addis Ababa to develop research capacity in a bid to keep IS talent in Africa. Read More...
Welcome to Africa - experience the video (27/01/2010)
	If international students are looking - as many said they are - for a uniquely African experience at UCT, then the university`s official welcome set just the right tone. On 25 January, the about 600 semester-abroad students, mostly from the US, who are registering at UCT over the next couple of days enjoyed some fun African-style dancing and drumming lessons, courtesy of a UCT dancing student and the Drum Café, respectively. Read More...
Orientation kicks-off with lots of fun (22/01/2010)
	As Big Nuz and DJ Tira`s hit song umlilo blared in the Beattie Building lecture theatre, students sang along and danced as if they were at a bash. But as the music died down the room went quiet and everyone listened attentively as the formal orientation programme of the Faculty of Commerce went into full swing. Read More...
Parent experiences Transformation at Graduation (19/01/2010)
	A parent of a Commerce graduate has written a newsletter published on the Good News SA website about his experience of Transformation at Graduation, including listening to "an ensemble performed by the students, all people of colour, who played a classical operatic piece with such grace that the audience was spellbound. The black tenor who sang demonstrated such extraordinary talent that the audience of parents ... were visibly moved with many snorting into tissues when the clapping subsided." Read More...
Toolkit gives African small businesses access to e-commerce (15/01/2010)
	An innovative project that helps small organisations in Africa set themselves up for e-commerce at minimal cost has been so effective that it has won the project`s originator, Professor Jean-Paul van Belle, head of the Department of Information Systems, a prestigious IBM Faculty Award. Read More...
High take-up rate by new students (14/01/2010)
	The new Acting Dean of Commerce, Professor Mike Wormald, says there has been a high take-up rate by first year students who have responded promptly to the SMSs sent to them on the day that matric results were released. Read More...
Real people do unreal things in Commerce (13/01/2010)
	The latest edition of the Financial Mail has a story about graduate Kenny Penkin doing his Master`s degree in Commerce, doing research on remuneration committees. Read More...

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