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How to become a Radiographer

Produces the medical images - X-rays, scans - used to diagnose illness.

What does a Radiographer actually do?

More about this career

Produces the medical images – X-rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound – that doctors use to diagnose illness and injury, working in hospitals, private imaging practices or mobile units. Different specialisations (diagnostic, therapeutic/radiation oncology, nuclear medicine) need different training routes.

Where this degree can take you

  • Radiation Therapist
  • Sonographer
  • MRI Specialist
  • Nuclear Medicine Technologist

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.

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Subjects that usually help

  • Mathematics
  • Physical Sciences
  • Life Sciences

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.

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Where to check this yourself

What the degrees we’ve captured actually ask for

  • Mathematics – asked for by 1 of 1 degrees
  • Physical Sciences – asked for by 1 of 1 degrees

Counted from the requirements below (an “or” alternative counts for each subject named). Each degree links to the page it came from.

Degrees that lead here

1 degree at 1 university. More are added as we verify them.

University of Pretoria

Selection programme

BRad (Radiography)

Health Sciences

UP APS 30 points

  • English: level 4 if it is your Home Language, level 4 if it is your First Additional Language
  • Mathematics: level 4 (50% or more)
  • Physical Sciences: level 4 (50% or more)

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

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Put your subjects in once and we’ll check them against every degree above – scored each university’s own way.

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