Unisa Second Semester Courses 2025
Great news if you want to study at Unisa this year! Second semester applications open on the 14th April, and will close on the 9th May.
The University of South Africa (Unisa) is one of the largest distance learning universities in the world, offering a wide range of courses to students across South Africa and abroad.
For the second semester, there are numerous courses and programs offered by Unisa.
Everyone wanting to start a new qualification must apply for admission. This includes:
- first-time Unisa applicants.
- Unisa students changing to a new qualification and/or specialisation.
- applicants who previously applied for admission and were not offered a space or who were offered a space, accepted the offer and did not register.
- students completing a higher certificate or any other programme and who wish to continue with further undergraduate studies.
The options available from UNISA include:
(Updated Monday 14th April 2025)
Advanced Certificates
- Advanced Certificate in Accounting Sciences (90017)
Diplomas
- Diploma in Accounting Sciences (98200)
- Diploma in Administrative Management (98216)
- Diploma in Agricultural Management (90097)
- Diploma in Animal Health (98026 - AHE)
- Diploma in Corrections Management (98218)
- Diploma in Explosives Management (98222)
- Diploma in Human Resource Management (98211)
- Diploma in Law (98750)
- Diploma in Marketing Management (98202)
- Diploma in Ornamental Horticulture (98025 - HOR)
- Diploma in Policing (98220)
- Diploma in Public Administration and Management (98203)
- Diploma in Security Management (98221)
- Diploma in Small Business Management (90073)
- Diploma in Tourism Management (98223)
Advanced Diploma
- Advanced Diploma in Accounting Sciences Financial Accounting (98230 - FAC)
- Advanced Diploma in Accounting Sciences Internal Auditing (98230 - AUI)
- Advanced Diploma in Accounting Sciences Management Accounting (Revised Curriculum 2020) (98230 - MA1)
- Advanced Diploma in Accounting Sciences Taxation (98230 - TAX)
- Advanced Diploma in Agricultural Management (98027)
- Advanced Diploma in Animal Health (90112)
- Advanced Diploma in Explosives Management (90124)
- Advanced Diploma in Ornamental and Landscape Horticulture (90094)
- Advanced Diploma in Security Management (98235)
- Advanced Diploma in Tourism Management (90118)
Bachelor Degrees
- Bachelor of Accounting Sciences in Financial Accounting (Revised Curriculum 2020) (98302 - FA1)
- Bachelor of Accounting Sciences in Management Accounting (Revised Curriculum 2020) (98304 - MA1)
- Bachelor of Accounting Sciences in Taxation (98318 - TAX)
- Bachelor of Administration (98315 - BAD)
- Bachelor of Arts African Politics and Economics (99311 - APE)
- Bachelor of Arts African Politics and Politics (99311 - APP)
- Bachelor of Arts Afrikaans and Economics (99311 - AEC)
- Bachelor of Arts Afrikaans and Private Law (99311 - AFL)
- Bachelor of Arts Anthropology and Communication Studies (99311 - ANS)
- Bachelor of Arts Anthropology and Economics (99311 - ANE)
- Bachelor of Arts Anthropology and History (99311 - ANH)
- Bachelor of Arts Anthropology and Linguistics (99311 - ANL)
- Bachelor of Arts Anthropology and Theology (99311 - ANT)
- Bachelor of Arts Arabic and Linguistics (99311 - ARL)
- Bachelor of Arts Arabic and Mandarin Chinese (99311 - AMC)
- Bachelor of Arts Arabic and Theology (99311 - ATH)
- Bachelor of Arts Art History and Ancient History (99311 - ANA)
- Bachelor of Arts Art History and Music in History and Society (99311 - AHS)
- Bachelor of Arts Development Studies and International Politics (99311 - DIP)
- Bachelor of Arts Development Studies and Philosophy (99311 - DPH)
- Bachelor of Arts Development Studies and Scripture (99311 - DSC)
- Bachelor of Arts French and Mandarin Chinese (99311 - FMC)
- Bachelor of Arts International Politics and Criminology (99311 - IPC)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and Afrikaans (99311 - LAF)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and Ancient History (99311 - LAH)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and Archives and Records Management (99311 - LAR)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and French (99311 - LFR)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and Geography (99311 - LGE)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and International Politics (99311 - LIP)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and Mandarin Chinese (99311 - LMC)
- Bachelor of Arts Linguistics and Theory of Literature (99311 - LTL)
- Bachelor of Arts Ministry and Music in History and Society (99311 - MHS)
- Bachelor of Arts Music in History and Society and Public Administration (99311 - MHP)
- Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Theology (99311 - PHT)
- Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Theory of Literature (99311 - PTL)
- Bachelor of Arts Politics and Anthropology (99311 - PAN)
- Bachelor of Arts Politics and Philosophy (99311 - PPH)
- Bachelor of Arts Politics and Religious Studies (99311 - PRS)
- Bachelor of Arts Politics and Theology (99311 - PTH)
- Bachelor of Arts Portuguese and French (99311 - POF)
- Bachelor of Arts Religious Studies and Anthropology (99311 - RSA)
- Bachelor of Arts Religious Studies and Philosophy (99311 - RSP)
- Bachelor of Arts Religious Studies and Sociology (99311 - RSS)
- Bachelor of Arts Theory of Literature and Music in History and Society (99311 - TMS)
- Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing (99313)
- Bachelor of Arts in Criminology (98681)
- Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies (99312)
- Bachelor of Arts in Forensic Science and Technology (90002)
- Bachelor of Arts in Police Science (98683)
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Leadership and Citizenship (99304)
- Bachelor of Business Administration (98316 - BBA)
- Bachelor of Commerce (98314 - GEN)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Business Informatics (98300 - BIS)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management (98310 - BSM)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Economics (98305 - ECS)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Economics Quantitative Economics (98305 - QEC)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurship (90106 - ENT)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Management (98306 - FMN)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resource Management (98307 - HRM)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (98308 - IOP)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Law (90123 - LAW)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing Management (98301 - MKT)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Quantitative Management (98311 - QMA)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Tourism Management (98312 - TRT)
- Bachelor of Commerce in Transport and Logistics (98313 - TRL)
- Bachelor of Consumer Science Fashion Retail Management (98005 - FAR)
- Bachelor of Consumer Science Fashion Small-Business Management (98005 - FSB)
- Bachelor of Consumer Science Food Service Management (98005 - FSM)
- Bachelor of Consumer Science Food and Clothing (98005 - FCL)
- Bachelor of Consumer Science Food and Nutrition (98005 - FNU)
- Bachelor of Consumer Science Hospitality Management (98005 - HOM)
- Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching School subject combination: Mathematics and Social Science (90103 - MSS)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Agriculture and Management (90104 - AGM)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Consumer Studies (90104 - CON)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Financial Accounting (90104 - FAC)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Hospitality Studies and Business Studies (90104 - HSB)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Hospitality Studies and Tourism (90104 - HST)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Information Technology (90104 - IFT)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Mathematical Literacy and Economics (90104 - MLE)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Mathematical Literacy and Financial Accounting (90104 - MFA)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Religious Studies (90104 - RES)
- Bachelor of Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching School subject combination: Tourism and Management (90104 - TRM)
- Bachelor of Laws (98680 - NEW)
- Bachelor of Music (90089)
- Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Science Agricultural Business and Management (90082 - ABM)
- Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Science Animal Science (90082 - ANS)
- Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Science Plant Science (90082 - PLS)
- Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management Botany (98052 - EBO)
- Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management Chemistry (98052 - ECH)
- Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management Zoology (98052 - EZO)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biochemistry (or Physiology or Microbiology) with Business Management (98053 - BBM)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biochemistry and Botany (98053 - BAB)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biochemistry and Microbiology (98053 - BAM)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biochemistry and Physiology (98053 - BAP)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biochemistry and Zoology (98053 - BAZ)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biomedical Sciences (98053 - BMI)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Biotechnology (98053 - BIT)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Botany and Microbiology (98053 - BNM)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Botany and Zoology (with Geography) (98053 - BZG)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Genetics and Zoology (or Botany, Microbiology, Physiology or Biochemistry) (98053 - GZB)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Microbiology and Physiology (98053 - MAP)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Microbiology and Zoology (98053 - MAZ)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Physiology and Zoology (98053 - PAZ)
- Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Psychology and Physiology (with Genetics) (98053 - PPG)
- Bachelor of Theology (90160)
It's important to keep in mind that there might be a limited number of second semester spaces available in some of these Unisa courses, so it's important to apply as soon as possible. Click here to start the application process.
