Johannesburg, South Africa
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 Oct 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2026
TUITION FEES
ZAR 48,689 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* by noon
** fees for the complete programme amount to between R48689,00 and R60191,00. Fees may vary depending on the composition of a particular qualification
Key Summary
Introduction
The purpose of the Bachelor of Mine Surveying Honours is that it prepares students with the competencies required for industry and research in the mine surveying sector. The program also allows students to meet the educational requirements needed for registration in the category of Professional Geometrician (Mine Surveying).
Reasons for studying at UJ
- UJ offers not only a special program called the First Year Experience to help orientate students throughout the first year but we also offer a Senior Student Experience that gears students toward the workplace!
- Grab the opportunity to participate in a variety of sports and train alongside Olympians and Paralympians on state-of-the-art pitches, tracks, and fields, or just keep fit by joining one of the gyms on each of our 4 campuses.
- Be part of a young, vibrant, and agile university that reflects and adapts easily to our country’s aspirations, while maintaining global relevance through numerous international partnerships.
- 178 Internationally respected and accepted qualifications.
- Join a university that cares enough to have raised over R300 million since the start of 2016 in order to support the Missing Middle Campaign. UJ also ensures that more than 6 000 needy students have two healthy meals per day.
- Study in the vibrant City of Gold – the economic hub of South Africa. Join a vibrant, cosmopolitan, progressive group of students and academics on their way to re-imagining the future!
- UJ offers an amazing on-campus experience whether you live in one of UJ’s residences, belong to a day house, or whether you just want to socialize at the Student Centres on all campuses.
- We ensure the health, safety, and security of all our students through our own on-campus health services and UJ Protection Services.
- Did you know that during the first five years of UJ’s existence it doubled its targeted research output and to this day, continues to break records!
Admissions
Curriculum
Year Modules
- Advanced Descriptive Quantification
- Construction Law & Contract Administration
- Construction Project Management
- Professional Practice
- International Construction
- Property Law and Economics
- Strategic Management
- Research Report: Quantity Surveying
- Sustainable Construction and Innovation
Rankings
Shanghai Ranking
- World Rankings: 601-700 in the world / 5th in South Africa and 6th in Africa
- Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS):
Hospitality & Tourism Management: 18th in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Sociology: Top 150 in the world, 1st and only one ranked in South Africa and Africa
Public Administration: Top 150 in the world, 1st and only one ranked in South Africa and Africa
Education: Top 300 in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Earth Sciences: Top 300 in the world, 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Geography: Top 300 in the world, 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Chemical Engineering: Top 400 in the world, joint 1st in South Africa and Africa
Political Sciences: Top 400 in the world, 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Physics: Top 400 in the world, 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Management: Top 500 in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Ecology: Top 500 in the world
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
- World Rankings: 434 in the world, in the Top 1.4% / 3rd in South Africa and Africa
- Subject Rankings:
English Language & Literature: Top 250 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Chemical Engineering: Top 350 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa, and joint 4th in Africa
Education & Training: Top 350 in the world, 5th in South Africa and Africa
Economics & Econometrics: Top 400 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa, and joint 5th in
Africa Agriculture & Forestry: Top 400 in the world, 6th in South Africa
Physics & Astronomy: Top 450 in the world, joint 2nd in South Africa, and joint 3rd in Africa
Environmental Sciences: Top 450 in the world, 6th in South Africa and Africa
Chemistry: Top 500 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa, and joint 6th in Africa
Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering: Top 500 in the world, 5th in South Africa
Medicine: Top 650 in the world
- QS Graduate Employability Rankings:
Top 500 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa
Times Higher Education (THE)
- World Rankings: 601-800 in the world / Joint 7th in South Africa
- Subject Rankings:
Law: Top 201+ in the world, joint 4th in South Africa and Africa
Education: Top 300 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Psychology: Top 400 in the world, joint 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Arts & Humanities: Top 400 in the world, joint 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Social Sciences: Top 400 in the world, 4th in South Africa and Africa
Life Sciences: Top 500 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa, and joint 5th in Africa
Business & Economics: Top 600 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa, and joint 6th in Africa
Engineering & Technology: Top 600 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa
Clinical & Health: Top 600 in the world
Computer Science: Top 800 in the world, joint 4th in South Africa
Physical Sciences: Top 800 in the world
- THE Young University Rankings: 173 among young universities, 4th in South Africa
- THE Emerging Economies University Rankings: 116 among universities in emerging economies, 7th in South Africa
US News & World Report’s Best Global Universities Rankings (BGUR)
- World Rankings: 378 in the world / 5th in South Africa and Africa
- Subject Rankings:
Geosciences: 222 in the world, 2nd in South Africa and Africa
Chemistry: 280 in the world, 1st in South Africa and Africa
Social Sciences & Public Health: 287 in the world, 5th in South Africa and Africa
Physics: 289 in the world, 3rd in South Africa and Africa
Engineering: 392 in the world, 2nd in South Africa, and 4th in Africa
Plant & Animal Science: 424 in the world
Environment/Ecology: 463 in the world
Program Outcome
Qualification outcomes and assessment criteria
The content, curriculum, and exit level outcomes (ELO) are scrutinized by the industry and accredited by SAGC to ensure conformance and standards are maintained in the new program.
- Demonstrate competence to identify, formulate, analyze and solve complex mine surveying problems creatively and innovatively.
- Demonstrate competence to apply knowledge of mathematics, natural science, and engineering sciences to the conceptualization of engineering models and to solve complex mine surveying problems.
- Demonstrate competence to perform creative, procedural, and non-procedural design and synthesis of components, systems, mine surveying works, products, or processes of a complex nature.
- Demonstrate competence to conduct investigations of complex mine surveying problems including engagement with the research literature and use of research methods including design of experiments, analysis, and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
- Demonstrate competence to use appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering tools, including information technology, prediction, and modeling, for the solution of complex mine surveying problems, with an understanding of the limitations, restrictions, premises, assumptions, and constraints.
- Demonstrate competence to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with mine surveying audiences and the community at large.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the impact of mine surveying activities on society, economy, industrial and physical environment.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of mine surveying management principles.
- Demonstrate competence to engage in independent and lifelong learning through well-developed learning skills.
- Comprehend and apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics, responsibilities, and norms of mine surveying practices.