The School for the Built Environment is the largest of its kind in the country. Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are offered in architecture, quantity surveying, construction management, real estate, and town and regional planning.

At the postgraduate level, the school offers honours degrees that include architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture as well as master’s degrees that include architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture, and town and regional planning.

The School also offers doctoral degrees.

The School of Information Technology (SIT) is unique and the first of its kind in South Africa where students have the advantage of an integrated approach to information technology (IT) with study programmes and modern laboratories in Computer Science, Informatics and Information Science. All the degree offerings in the SIT are highly sought after in the IT industry with a focus on industry-related trends. The curriculum conforms to the highest international standards and provides breadth and depth in computing skills; equips students with problem-solving abilities; and gives them a foundation for continued learning in an IT career and for producing high-quality software.

This is a postgraduate department offering internationally recognised development programmes. These programmes are offered at honours, master's, and doctoral level and address different needs in the field of Technology and Innovation Management, Project Management and Engineering Management.