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Helps people do the everyday activities that matter to them again.
Helps people regain the skills for everyday life – dressing, working, going to school – after injury, illness or disability, which is a different focus from physiotherapy’s emphasis on movement itself. OTs work in hospitals, schools, mental health settings, and increasingly in disability and community-based rehabilitation.
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.
4 degrees at 4 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
UCT Faculty Points Score 340 out of 600
The 340 shown is the APS sub-minimum (out of 600). Selection: Band A FPS 730, Band B WPS 782, Band C 565 / 580 / 670. About 70 places.
Source: View the official page (uct.ac.za) (opens the official page) · 2027 intake
UP APS 30 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.