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Front-line patient care in hospitals, clinics and communities.
Front-line patient care – from basic care to complex procedures, depending on your qualification level (there are several routes: diploma, degree, and different levels of registration with SANC). Nurses work in hospitals, clinics and community health, and can specialise into areas like ICU, midwifery or theatre nursing.
This is our general description of the role and related jobs, not from an official source – it’s here to give you a fuller picture, not as a careers-counselling guarantee.
This is our general guidance about which school subjects suit this career. It is not an admission requirement and not from an official source – the real requirements are on the degrees below.
Counted from the requirements below (an “or” alternative counts for each subject named). Each degree links to the page it came from.
5 degrees at 5 universities. More are added as we verify them.
Stellenbosch aggregate 60 %
Every Stellenbosch programme is a selection programme. The figures shown are the published minimum requirements - the actual selection threshold is usually higher. About 50 students are selected.
Source: View the official page (files.su.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake
UJ APS 30 points
This figure was read from the search-engine index of the official UJ programme page rather than from the full page, and UJ’s 2027 prospectus PDF could not be fetched. Confirm it on the UJ page before you rely on it.
Source: View the official page (uj.ac.za) (opens the official page)
UKZN APS 30 points out of 48
The published APS range is 48-30. This comes from the Study@UKZN 2026 brochure, the most recent official source we could find. UKZN had not published a 2027 table when we checked, so treat these as 2026 figures pending a 2027 update. Applications go through the CAO.
Source: View the official page (studyatukzn.ukzn.ac.za) (opens the official page)
UP APS 28 points
A selection programme. Most UP closing dates are 30 June; Veterinary Science closes 31 May. Grade 12 applicants apply with their final Grade 11 results.
Source: View the official page (drupalwebprod-files.up.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake
No points cut-off published for this one – see the note below.
Wits Health Sciences uses a Composite Index (75% school average across 5 subjects, 25% NBT), not APS, and does not publish the cut-off scores. This figure comes from the Wits schools-liaison Grade 12 guide, which is headed for 2026 entry. We have not yet found a 2027 course-finder page confirming it, so treat it as the most recent official figure rather than a confirmed 2027 one.
Source: View the official page (wits.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake
Put your subjects in once and we’ll check them against every degree above – scored each university’s own way.