The Design School Southern Africa admission or Entry Requirement

The Design School Southern Africa Admission or Entry Requirement

 

A NSC with Degree admission- A minimum of 30 % for English coupled with a minimum of 50% for four x DESIGNATED NSC subjects (This excludes LO which is a 10 credit subject); OR

 A NC(V) with Degree admission – A minimum of 60 % in English on either First Additional Language or Home Language level AND Mathematics or Mathematical Literacy AND Life Orientation , with a minimum of 70% in the four vocational subjects is required; OR

A SC (with endorsement) or equivalent; OR

Alternatively, a Higher Certificate, an Advanced Certificate, 240 or 360 credit Diploma in a cognate field may satisfy the minimum admission requirements to degree studies.

All candidates are required to submit a creative portfolio and successfully meet the creative portfolio criteria based on a review by a specialist panel and undergo an interview.

General Requirements for Undergraduate Degrees: 

  • All applicants for The IIE undergraduate degree studies, including international students, are required to write the Academic and Quantitative Literacy (AQL) – National Benchmark Test (NBT), unless they:
    • have attained the age of 23 before or during the first year of registration; OR
    • have been admitted on the basis of mature age; OR
    • are accessing a degree with a higher certificate, 240 or 360 credit diploma or advanced certificate; OR
    • have previously been admitted to degree studies elsewhere;OR
    • have enrolled on a distance programme- the writing of the NBT AQL test is recommended, but not compulsory.

A student’s Academic Literacy (AL) score of the AQL – NBT is used for placement in student support programmes and does not replace the admission requirements for a specific degree programme.

Applicants who achieve an AL score lower than 64 are required to register for and successfully complete the two Academic Literacy modules; namely Introduction to Scholarship A (ITSA) and Introduction to Scholarship B (ITSB). Applicants who do not write the AQL – NBT prior to admission will automatically be registered for ITSA and ITSB whether or not these are credit bearing modules in their qualifications. These candidates may, on provision of an AL – AQL – NBT score of 64 or above, be exempted from one or both the modules if and only if these are non-credit bearing modules in their qualifications. For candidates who are completing the modules as a result of the low AL – AQL – NBT score or who did not provide an AL – AQL – NBT score, successful completion of ITSA and ITSB is a pre-requisite for registering for any third year modules and thus any student who has not completed ITSA or ITSB in their first year of study will be required to do so in their second year. Students enrolled on a distance programme will have access to these modules, but it would not be a pre-requisite for registering for any third year modules. Where ITSA or ITSB is credit bearing in the qualification concerned, successful completion of one or both (depending on the curriculum structure) is also a graduation requirement. ​