Introduction Video

Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon merged in 2006 and became established as Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The institution is now referred to as CPUT and envisions to be the heart of technology, education and innovation in Africa.

The institution boasts modern facilities with innovative teaching and learning approaches making studying more enjoyable. CPUT is a leading university of technology in the Western Cape and offers a variety of career-focused undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a broad spectrum of subjects.


The institution has six faculties:
Applied Science
Business
Design and Informatics 
Education  and Social Sciences
Engineering
Heath and Wellness Sciences

Five research centres:
Centre for Instrumentation Research (CIR)
e-Innovation Academy (e-IA)
Fundani - Teaching and Learning
Unit of Lifelong Learning
Water and Sanitation Services Unit (Project Web Site)

This is the life inside one of CPUTs classroom, the place where all the learning takes place, where friends are made and where the knowledge is stored.


The learners in the picture, named Keegan, Aasif, Nadir and Hassan are currently sitting in lab 1.37 in a Development Software class. 

These classes are there to help us improve our academic marks and its proved to be an advantage because learners are seeing the change in their grades.

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, a university in Cape Town, South Africa, is the only university of Technology in the Western Cape Province, and is also the largest university in the province, with over 32,000 students.

CPUT has five campuses:
The Bellville Campus, formerly the campus of the Peninsula Technikon . 
The Cape Town Campus, formerly the campus of the Cape Technikon. 
The Mowbray Campus, formerly the Mowbray College of Education. 
The Granger Bay Campus, housing the Cape Town Hotel School and the Survival Centre.
The Wellington Campus, formerly the Boland College of Education.