
BEngTech / BEngTech Extended in Extraction Metallurgy
University of Johannesburg

Key Information
Campus location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 - 4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
ZAR 48,689 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* fees for the complete programme amount to between R48689,00 and R60191,00. Fees may vary depending on the composition of a particular qualification
Introduction
The purpose of the BEngTech (Extraction Metallurgy) is to build the necessary knowledge, understanding, abilities, and skills required for further learning towards becoming a competent, practicing Extraction Metallurgy Technologist. Specifically, the qualification will provide the graduate with:
- preparation for a career in engineering itself and areas that potentially benefit from engineering skills, for achieving technological proficiency, and making a contribution to the economy and national development;
- the educational base required for registration as a Professional Engineering Technologist with ECSA; and
- for graduates with an appropriate level of achievement, the ability to enter NQF level 8 programs, and then proceed to Master’s degrees.
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
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
The exit level outcomes as informed by ECSA are that students who complete this programme will be able to:
- systematically diagnose and solve broadly-defined metallurgical problems by applying engineering principles;
- apply knowledge of mathematics, natural science, and engineering sciences to define and applied engineering procedures, processes, systems, and methodologies to solve broadly-defined metallurgical problems;
- perform the procedural and non-procedural design of broadly defined components, systems, works, products or processes to meet desired needs normally within applicable standards, codes of practices;
- conduct investigations of broadly-defined problems by locating, searching, and selecting relevant data from codes, databases, and literature, designing and conducting experiments, and analyzing and interpreting results in order to provide valid conclusions;
- use appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering tools, including information technology, prediction, and modeling, for the solution of broadly-defined metallurgical problems with an understanding of their limitations, restrictions, premises, assumptions, and constraints;
- communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with engineering audiences and affected parties;
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the impact of metallurgical activity on the society, economy, industrial and physical environment, and address issues by analysis and evaluation;
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of metallurgical management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, and to manage projects;
- engage in independent and life-long learning through well-developed learning skills; and
- comprehend and apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics, responsibilities, and norms of metallurgical technology practice.