Overview

Key Features

As a professional discipline, Development Finance at University of Cape Town is widely practised today across a broad range of organisations and contexts. However, there is a shortage of development finance experts in Africa, where this kind of knowledge is needed most.

Development finance skills can be useful in providing optimum financial outcomes that enhance the design and implementation of reforms and capacity-building programmes adopted by development finance institutions, governments, the private sector and NGOs.

You don’t need to be working in a development finance institution to benefit from this degree. These skills are also widely used by people in other contexts, including banking and financial services.

Applicants to this programme are typically:

development finance practitioners
civil servants
staff of development finance institutions
staff of other financial institutions
entrepreneurs
staff of NGOs
employed in the private sector

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Quantitative Methods in Development Finance

Micro-Enterprise Finance

Responsible Investment

Issues In Development Finance

International Finance For Development

Research Methods

Project Finance

Public Sector Finance

Innovative Finance
Research Report

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-03-09 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-30 00:00:00

Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Cape Town, South Africa

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Required

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants need to have an NQF level 8 qualification in Economics, Commerce, Accounting, Finance or other finance related degrees. Verification of whether the qualification is equivalent to a South African degree is also required. This can be done by contacting the South African Qualifications Authority.

Alternatively, you may have an NQF level 8 qualification in other non-finance related disciplines with at least 3 years' work experience in finance-related work and a very strong quantitative background.
Students must be fluent in spoken and written English.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

177130 ZAR / year

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Citizens or residents

112915 ZAR / year

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Living costs

Cape Town

South Africa

9088 - 15529 ZAR / month

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