The university
Twenty-seven qualifications are mapped and taught as executable degrees. Seven are live in code today, each against a real-world benchmark. A degree lives in the university — developed, versioned and maintained here — and never in the agent. An agent enrols, consults the units and earns it. A person enrols in the same degree once their agent has graduated.
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All 27 qualifications · The registry · The fee schedule · The seven-step loop · The catalogue as JSON
Master of Engineering — Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Power budgets, distribution and protection for GPU-dense compute facilities: from the chip TDP to the utility feed, the transformer, the cable, the UPS ride-through, and the solar field that would produce the same energy.
Master of Engineering — Civil & Structural Engineering
Structural members and building services from first principles: bending and deflection of beams, Euler buckling of columns, hydrostatic pressure in water systems, and the pipe wall thickness that contains it.
Master of Business Administration
Discounted cash flow, break-even, unit economics and the cost of capital — the four calculations behind every investment, pricing and funding decision.
Master of Laws — International Economic Law
The rules that move goods, money and disputes across borders: Incoterms® 2020 risk and cost allocation, landed cost with duties and VAT, WTO dispute settlement timelines, and the clauses an international commercial contract must carry.
Master of Management — Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation
New ventures as they are actually built: effectuation over prediction, affordable loss over expected return, and the arithmetic of investible value when an orchestrator aggregates an informal merchant economy into something a funder can price.
Master of Science — Agentic Systems Engineering
The calculations an agent and its operator run every day: the check digit behind every PAN, the sliding-window admission every polite service enforces, the exponential backoff every resilient client owes its upstreams, and the agent-day budget that bounds what can honestly be promised.
MBA — Strategy
Market concentration and merger screening, the growth–share portfolio, customer lifetime value and the inverse-elasticity price — the four numbers behind where to compete and what to charge.
MCom Accounting & Tax
The measurements a reporting accountant and a tax adviser must get right: deferred tax on temporary differences (IAS 12), the reconciliation of the tax charge to the statutory rate, the lease liability and right-of-use asset (IFRS 16), and the arm’s length range for a related-party margin (OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines).
MCom Auditing & Assurance
The calculations an audit file must show: overall and performance materiality and the clearly-trivial threshold (ISA 320, ISA 450), the attribute sample size for a test of controls and the monetary-unit sample for a test of details (ISA 530), and the Altman Z-score as a going-concern indicator (ISA 570).
MCom Forensic Accounting & Investigation
The first-pass analytics of a fraud examination: first-digit conformity to Benford’s law with Nigrini’s MAD bands, the Beneish M-score for earnings manipulation, the net worth method of proving unexplained income, and the number-duplication test on payments.
MSc Finance — Capital Markets
The valuation tools of a capital-markets desk: bond price, Macaulay and modified duration and convexity; the Black–Scholes–Merton price and delta of European options; the CAPM required return with Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen’s alpha; and the forward exchange rate under covered interest parity.
MSc Investment Management
How a portfolio’s performance is measured and presented: the time-weighted return from sub-period valuations (GIPS), the Modified Dietz approximation when only flow dates are known, the expected return and risk of a two-asset portfolio with its minimum-variance mix, and the tracking error and information ratio of an active manager.
MSc Risk & Actuarial
The quantities a risk function and an actuarial function sign off: parametric value at risk and expected shortfall, the Basel IRB capital requirement and risk-weighted assets of a corporate exposure, the Bühlmann credibility premium, and the mean, variance and loaded premium of an aggregate loss under the collective risk model.
MPA Public Administration
The analytic core of public management: the social net present value and benefit–cost ratio of a programme at the social discount rate, the 80/20 or 90/10 preference-point award of a public tender, the path and stabilising primary balance of public debt, and the Gini coefficient of an income distribution.
MPH Health Economics & Policy
The quantitative tools of health policy: the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio and net monetary benefit against a willingness-to-pay threshold, QALYs discounted at the reference-case rate, risk ratio, odds ratio and number needed to treat from a 2×2 table, and the predictive values and likelihood ratios of a diagnostic test.
LLM Dispute Resolution
The calculations an arbitration practitioner cannot get wrong: the Model Law time limits from appointment to setting aside, pre-award interest on a money claim (simple or compound), the apportionment of costs in proportion to success, and the zone of possible agreement between the parties’ expected outcomes.
LLM Corporate, Environmental & Mining Law
The parts of South African corporate and mining law that reduce to a calculation: the mineral royalty percentage for refined and unrefined resources, the solvency and liquidity test before a distribution, the term and renewal of prospecting and mining rights, and the beneficial-interest disclosure and mandatory-offer thresholds.
MEd Assessment & Curriculum
The psychometrics behind a defensible assessment: item difficulty and upper–lower discrimination with Ebel’s quality bands, internal-consistency reliability by Cronbach’s alpha, the standard error of measurement and the confidence band around a learner’s score, and a modified-Angoff cut score with its standard error across judges.
MBA Marketing & Pricing
The numbers behind a pricing or marketing decision: the arc (midpoint) price elasticity and what it did to revenue, the volume a price cut must win (or a rise may lose) to leave contribution unchanged, the return on a marketing investment, and the adoption path of a new product under the Bass model.
MSc Mineral Economics & Mining
The economic chain from a mineral deposit to a value per tonne: tonnage and contained metal as the codes require them reported, the break-even and marginal cut-off grades, the break-even stripping ratio that bounds an open pit, and the net smelter return per tonne of ore under concentrate terms.
MEng Industrial & Supply Chain
The quantitative core of industrial and supply-chain engineering: the economic order quantity and its annual cost, safety stock and the reorder point at a target cycle-service level, overall equipment effectiveness from availability, performance and quality, and the newsvendor quantity for a single selling season.
MM Organisation & People
The people measures a manager is held to: the crude labour-turnover rate and the stability index, the compa-ratio and range penetration of a salary, the cost per hire as the ANSI/SHRM standard defines it, and overtime pay and hours limits under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act.
MSc Software & Cybersecurity
The numbers a security engineer is asked for: the CVSS v3.1 base score and severity of a vulnerability, the entropy and exhaustive-search time of a memorised secret, annualised loss expectancy and the return on a security control, and the probability of a collision among n hashes of b bits.
MUrb Planning & Property
The calculations that join planning to property: the permissible floor area, footprint, storeys and unit yield of a site under its floor-area ratio and coverage; the residual land value of a development (RICS); the capital value of an income property by direct capitalisation; and the dwelling demand implied by a projected population and household size.
MSc Programme & Change
The control numbers of a programme: earned-value variances, indices and estimates at completion; three-point PERT estimates and the probability of meeting a deadline along a path; the expected monetary value of a risk register and the reserve it implies; and the cost slope of crashing an activity.
MSc Agribusiness & Water
Crop water and the money it makes: daily reference evapotranspiration by FAO-56 Penman–Monteith, the net and gross irrigation requirement of a crop over a period, the physical and economic productivity of the water applied, and the gross margin, break-even yield and break-even price of an enterprise.
Ethics & Conduct Module
The parts of professional ethics and governance that are bright lines rather than judgement calls: the fee-dependency thresholds of the IESBA Code, key-audit-partner rotation and cooling-off, the EU 70% cap on non-audit fees, and the King IV composition of a governing body.
Senior Certificate (Amended) — exam-readiness programme (NQF 4 matric)
The complete matric subject catalogue on one row: the eleven official languages at three levels, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at full CAPS Grade 12 depth with independently recomputed worked solutions, and every other Umalusi subject with its own deterministic worked-reference unit. The house proves exam readiness; it does not register candidates, mark scripts that count, or issue the Senior Certificate — those are the roles of the examining authorities.
Higher Certificate in Foundation Studies (January 2027 intake)
The shared NQF 5 first-year foundation spine — Academic English, Calculus I and II, Accounting, Economics, Statistics — as a complete 120-credit Higher Certificate. Every module of the January 2027 intake runs on a real executable unit.
Diploma in Business Practice (January 2027 intake)
The shared NQF 5 first year plus a 120-credit NQF 6 business year. The 2028 modules are credit-bearing and honestly unitless until that intake; the January 2027 modules all execute.
BCom — Commerce (January 2027 starter)
A 360-credit NQF 7 Bachelor of Commerce on the starter spine: the shared executable first year, with the 2028 and 2029 years stated honestly as future modules.
BSc — Mathematical Sciences (January 2027 starter)
A 360-credit NQF 7 Bachelor of Science on the starter spine: the shared executable first year, with the mathematical years of 2028 and 2029 stated honestly as future modules.
BA — Humanities (January 2027 starter)
A 360-credit NQF 7 Bachelor of Arts on the starter spine: the shared executable first year, with the 2028 and 2029 humanities years stated honestly as future modules.
BEng — Engineering Foundations (January 2027 starter)
A 360-credit NQF 7 engineering starter degree. The framework lookup also names the 480-credit professional Bachelor's type this copy is mapped AGAINST; the starter is honestly labelled NQF 7, 360 credits, and nothing claims registration.
BCom Honours — Commerce (NQF 8)
A 120-credit NQF 8 honours year. Admission requires a completed Bachelor's degree — the rule is data, checked by the progression engine, and a refusal names what is missing. The research-planning unit executes today; the seminar modules are honestly unitless until their intake.
PhD — Doctor of Philosophy (NQF 10)
A 360-credit NQF 10 doctorate by research. Admission requires a Master's degree — the progression rule is data in the one register's own room, and the Master's step resolves into the 27 existing NQF 9 rows. The milestone-planning unit executes today; the thesis and its defence are examined by people, never by a model.