Overview

For any student to be considered for postgraduate studies, you first need to find a supervisor that is willing to take you on.

Students in the Electrical or Electronic Engineering program from Stellenbosch University without a prospective supervisor will not be considered. If you meet the above admission requirements, you therefore first have to find a prospective supervisor before applying.

Features

You can look through our research activity and staff pages and reach out to individual supervisors to hear if they would be willing to supervise you.

Note that supervisors are limited by whether they have bandwidth to supervise students and by whether your research interests synchronize with their fields of expertise. Supervisors get a lot of student queries, so do your homework beforehand: it goes a long way if the student has done a bit of background investigation on a prospective supervisor before contacting them.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Control Systems

Satellite Systems

Biomedical Electronics

Electrical Energy

Smart Grid Technology

Computational Electromagnetics

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-02-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-01-31 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

79

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Electrical Engineering Electronics & Embedded Technology View 4 other PhDs in Electronics & Embedded Technology in South Africa

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

79

Student insurance

Make sure to cover your health, travel, and stay while studying abroad. Even global coverages can miss important items, so make sure your student insurance ticks all the following:

Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
Liability
Home contents and baggage
Accidents
Legal aid

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Other requirements

General requirements

Student finds a prospective supervisor who is willing to supervise them (see above).

The student and supervisor complete and sign the departmental application form (available to the supervisor here).

All students apply on SUNStudent.

The supervisor submits the following to the Postgraduate Administrator.

Only after these details are received from a supervisor, does the Postgraduate Administrator send the required documents to the E&E Management Committee for consideration.

If accepted, the Management Committee notifies the prospective supervisor, who then notifies the student.

The Postgraduate Administrator notifies the university’s Registration Office, which then sends out emails notifying the student of their formal acceptance.

Tuition Fee

Living costs for Stellenbosch

7630 - 10640 ZAR /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

Below you will find PhD's scholarship opportunities for Electrical or Electronic Engineering.

Available Scholarships

You are eligible to apply for these scholarships but a selection process will still be applied by the provider.

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