2025 UFS Application Form
Application Documents for Admission to the UFS
Become a UFS student in 9 steps:
Step 1: Apply online or in hard copy (undergraduate and postgraduate).
Step 2: Your application form is processed. You will receive a student number. If you have not submitted the required documents, you will be requested to do so in order to finalise your application.
Step 3: You are conditionally admitted once you meet all the admission requirements.
Step 4: If you have applied for campus residence, you will now receive correspondence from Housing and Residence Affairs.
Step 5: If you are accepted when the final Grade 12 results become available, in January 2025, you will receive a letter of acceptance.
Step 6: You have to make prepayments five (5) days prior to registration in January 2025. Use your student number as the reference number.
Step 7: Register during January 2025.
Step 8: Get your study material and timetable after registration.
Step 9: Enjoy your classes, which start early February 2025.
Step 1: Apply online or in hard copy (undergraduate and postgraduate).
Step 2: Your application form is processed. You will receive a student number. If you have not submitted the required documents, you will be requested to do so in order to finalise your application.
Step 3: You are conditionally admitted once you meet all the admission requirements.
Step 4: If you have applied for campus residence, you will now receive correspondence from Housing and Residence Affairs.
Step 5: If you are accepted when the final Grade 12 results become available, in January 2025, you will receive a letter of acceptance.
Step 6: You have to make prepayments five (5) days prior to registration in January 2025. Use your student number as the reference number.
Step 7: Register during January 2025.
Step 8: Get your study material and timetable after registration.
Step 9: Enjoy your classes, which start early February 2025.
General Information
Good! You are about to begin with your application to the UFS
General information before you start your application at UFS
- If you have already started an online application for 2025 Second Semester or 2025 enter your email address in the space provided and click Send Email button to continue.
- If you have an existing UFS student number, enter your student number and click on the Start NEW application button below.
- If you are a new applicant click on the Start NEW application button below.
DO THIS before you start: Scan your
- Identity document/passport if you are currently in Grade 12 (Including school stamp)
- School-end certificate if you have completed Grade 12
- Latest Academic transcript and certificate of conduct if you are transferring from another tertiary institution.
Disclaimer: The University of the Free State reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to withdraw your application to the University, should the attached results, documentation and/or information requested in terms of this form, be found to be erroneous or fraudulent.
What does this mean? If you don’t submit all documents and information we need, or submit false documents and information, we will not consider your application.
Our Faculties: UFS Faculties
NBT: www.nbt.ac.za
Important Dates:
| Selection Programmes | Closing date |
|---|---|
| Architecture | 31 May 2025 |
| Health Sciences (MBChB and Allied Health Professions) | 31 May 2025 |
| Diploma School of Nursing | 31 July 2025 |
| Nursing | 31 July 2025 |
| Nursing Short Learning Programmes | 31 July 2025 |
| Quantity Surveying and Construction Management | 31 July 2025 |
| Forensic Science | 30 September 2025 |
| Geology | 30 September 2025 |
| Music | 30 September 2025 |
| Social Work | 30 September 2025 |
| Fine Arts | 01 November 2025 |