Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is a private school in Cape Town that teaches marketing, design, business and technology. It was founded in 1994 by a group of advertising leaders who wanted…
Study in the Western Cape
Studying in the Western Cape gives you access to four public Universities, one of which is also a dedicated University of Technology — a strong mix of academic and career-focused routes based in the province.
Six public TVET Colleges operate across the Western Cape, offering NC(V) and Report 191 qualifications from Grade 9
or 10 level, and the province runs its own public Nursing College for SANC-registered nurse training.
The Western Cape has the second-largest number of DHET-registered Private Colleges in the country, giving learners a genuinely wide range of private-sector business, IT and occupational qualifications to choose from, alongside legal Home Schooling registration under the same national rules as the rest of South Africa.
Cape Town houses Parliament and serves as the country's legislative capital, and the province's economy runs on tourism, a globally recognised wine industry, a substantial agricultural export sector and a growing engineering and logistics cluster around Saldanha Bay — a genuinely broad mix of industries for students to train towards, whatever direction they're headed in.
If you're relocating to the Western Cape specifically to study, budget realistically for a higher cost of living than most other provinces, particularly in and around Cape Town — one of the trade-offs of studying somewhere this popular. Funding through NSFAS works the same way regardless of province, so it doesn't affect this decision either way.
Browse the institutions in the Western Cape below to see the full range.
Distance Learning: 29 in the Western Cape
Health and Fitness Professionals Academy, known as HFPA, is a private education provider in South Africa. It specialises in fitness, personal training, coaching and sport science qualifications, and…
The International Hotel School is a private hospitality and culinary school registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under registratio…
AAA School of Advertising is a private higher education institution registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training under certificate number 2000/HE07/015. It was set up in 1990 by th…
Home Schooling: 1 in the Western Cape
UCT Online High School is a fully online high school for South African learners, run in partnership between the University of Cape Town and Valenture Institute, a global ed-tech company founded in 20…
Nursing Colleges: 4 in the Western Cape
Stellenbosch University is a public university in the Western Cape. It began as a university in its own right on 2 April 1918, when Victoria College was reconstituted as the University of Stellenbosc…
Nelson Mandela University is a public university based in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape. It was formed on 1 January 2005 when the University of Port Elizabeth, the PE Technikon and the Port Elizabeth…
The University of the Free State, known as UFS, is a public university whose history goes back to 1904, when it opened in Bloemfontein as Grey University College. Its faculty rule books state that it…
North-West University, known as the NWU, is a South African public university. It came into being on 1 January 2004, when the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and the Universit…
Private Colleges: 11 in the Western Cape
Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is a private school in Cape Town that teaches marketing, design, business and technology. It was founded in 1994 by a group of advertising leaders who wanted…
AAA School of Advertising is a private higher education institution registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training under certificate number 2000/HE07/015. It was set up in 1990 by th…
College SA is a private distance and online college that was known as Optimi College until 2026, when the group merged its Optimi College and IT Academy brands under the College SA name. The legal en…
Imsimbi Training is a private, SETA-accredited training provider that works mainly with employers and working adults rather than with school-leavers heading for a degree. Its accreditation page descr…
Private Higher Institutions: 26 in the Western Cape
The South African College of Applied Psychology, known as SACAP, is a private higher education institution registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a Private Higher Educatio…
TSIBA Business School is a private higher education institution based in Cape Town that has been teaching since 2004. It is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a privat…
The Academy of Sound Engineering, known as ASE, is a private higher education institution registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training under the Higher Education Act, 1997, holding…
IIE Rosebank International is an education brand owned by The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd, and until May 2026 it traded as Rosebank College. The Independent Institute of Education is…
TVET Colleges: 2 in the Western Cape
False Bay TVET College is a public Technical and Vocational Education and Training college on the False Bay coast in the south of Cape Town, Western Cape. It forms part of the public TVET sector over…
Boland College is a public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college serving the Boland region of the Western Cape, governed under Chapter 3 of the Continuing Education and Train…
Universities: 6 in the Western Cape
Stellenbosch University is a public university in the Western Cape. It began as a university in its own right on 2 April 1918, when Victoria College was reconstituted as the University of Stellenbosc…
Nelson Mandela University is a public university based in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape. It was formed on 1 January 2005 when the University of Port Elizabeth, the PE Technikon and the Port Elizabeth…
The University of the Free State, known as UFS, is a public university whose history goes back to 1904, when it opened in Bloemfontein as Grey University College. Its faculty rule books state that it…
North-West University, known as the NWU, is a South African public university. It came into being on 1 January 2004, when the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and the Universit…
Universities of Technology: 1 in the Western Cape
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, known as CPUT, is a public university of technology in the Western Cape and the only institution of its kind in the province. It was formed on 1 January 2005…