Academic Requirements

To be admitted to degree studies, a student must comply with the following requirements:

University Entrance Certificate (NSC)
In order to obtain a National Senior Certificate a student must obtain the following minimum requirements:

Four Compulsory Subjects:
1. First Language (English / Afrikaans etc) pass with 40%
2. Second Language (English / Afrikaans etc) pass with 30%
3. Maths or Mathematics Literacy pass with 30%
4. Life Orientation (two lessons a week) pass with 40%

Any three other subjects from the designated subject groups. One subject must be passed with at least 40% and the other two with at least 30%

Minimum requirements for HET (Bachelor’s Degree)

Any four of the seven subjects taken for the NSC must be passed between at
least 50%-59%. This scores a mark of 4 each.

Stenden SA entrance is a total of at least 35 marks. 30-34 marks qualifies an
applicant for entrance at Dean’s discretion.

Marks are made up as follows:
0-29% = 1 mark
30-39% = 2 marks
40-49% = 3 marks
50-59% = 4 marks
60-69% = 5 marks
70-79% = 6 marks
80-89% = 7 marks (1)
90-100% = 7 marks (2)

Other certificates / entrance requirements are:
- Senior Certificate (Grade 12) with at least a D pass in English and at least 2 years relevant industry experience;
- Senior Certificate (Grade 12) with at least a D pass in English and at least 1 successful tertiary academic year in a related field and a SAQA registered programme that counts at least 120 credits; or another higher education qualification from a registered higher education institute.

Since English is the language of instruction, further criteria for this language are:

- South African Senior Certificate undergraduate applicants to Stenden SA must have achieved a pass or higher with at least a ‘D’ symbol in English at Senior Certificate/Further Education and Training Certificate level.

For non-SA residents, the following criteria apply:

- An academic IELTS-test with Band score 6.0 and no sub scores under 5; visit the IELTS website for more information.
- A TOEFL-test of 550 (paper-based) or 213 (computer-based). The TOEFL is only accepted when the IELTS-test is not offered in the applicants’ country of residence.
- Applicants who are native speakers of English or who have successfully undertaken secondary or post-secondary courses -for a minimum of two years- where English was the language of instruction are not required to
submit an IELTS of TOEFL test score.

In exceptional cases, mature applicants who do not satisfy the requirements
detailed above may be admitted if there is evidence that they possess the
intellectual and technical abilities to complete the programme successfully.
For this purpose, a mature applicant shall be defined as one aged 23 or more.
Stenden SA will require that the candidate should write and entrance test in this
case.

Students with previous hospitality training at one of the institutes that belong to
the HEPSA (Hospitality Education Providers South Africa) and who trains on
the same level as Stenden SA, may receive credits for one or more parts of the
programme. Students will have to apply to the exam committee and will have
to write a competency test. Each case will be treated individually and the
decision to give exemption to one or more parts of the programme is to the
discretion of the exam committee. It is not necessary for the committee to
make the reasons for their decisions in this respect public. No student has the
right to demand any exemption. Exempion may be partial and subject to the
fulfillment of additional tests or assignments.