The NASSP Master's programme is in the form of a course work component plus a research dissertation component and should take a total of 18 months to complete (i.e. from January in Year 1 to June in Year 2). The first 6 months are spent on the coursework and students are based  at UCT. During the following 12 months students will be located at the institution of their MSc supervisor.

Coursework:

Students are required to take modules with a total of 5 credits. The modules offered for 2024 are shown in the table below.

Module

Credits

Convenor

Stellar Astrophysics  1

Prof Chris Engelbrecht (Emeritus)

Radio interferometry

1

Mr Benjamin Hugo (RU)

Accreting Compact Binaries

1

Dr Steve Potter (SAAO)

Extragalactic Astronomy

1

Prof D.J. Pisano (UCT)

Data Science in Astronomy

1

Prof Patrick Woudt (UCT)

Instrumentation

1 Dr Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay (SAAO)