School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria is one of Africa’s top universities and the largest contact university in South Africa. The institution produces socially impactful research to find solutions for the world’s most pressing issues and facilitates high quality teaching and learning in the classroom, online, and in communities.

The University of Pretoria’s School of the Arts (UP SoA) strives to be the academic locus in South Africa that produces the most distinguished postgraduate researchers, prolific creative talent and performing artists. The UP SoA provides access and opportunity across demographics to all talented students from all South African communities who wish to maintain standards of excellence and thereby contribute to society. The UP SoA offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in the following programmes: Classical Music, Classical Voice & Opera, Jazz, Drama, Fine Arts, Information Design, Visual Studies, Art Therapies, Digital Culture & Media, Tangible Heritage Conservation, Interdisciplinary & Museum Studies, and Arts of Africa.