Centre for Materials Engineering

Tel +27 21 6509111

Physical Address
2nd floor, Menzies Building
Upper Campus,
University of Cape Town

Postal Address
University of Cape Town
Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701

 

Directions to UCT

From Cape Town city via M3: If you are on the M3 travelling in the direction of Muizenberg, just beyond Mostert's Mill (windmill) on your left, take the Woolsack Drive/University of Cape Town turn-off (Exit 7 Rosebank – M89). For Upper Campus, turn right at the traffic lights on Woolsack Drive and go under the bridge and round a hairpin bend to the northern entrance of the campus.

From Main Road: If you are driving along Main Road, from either direction, you will need to turn from Main Road into Woolsack Drive (on the corner in front of the Baxter theatre) and then turn left at the traffic lights on Woolsack Drive for middle campus, or continue under the bridge and round the hairpin bend to upper campus.  

 

Directions to Upper Campus from Cape Town

To reach the upper campus from the city:

  • Drive along De Waal Drive or Eastern Boulevard, passing Groote Schuur Hospital on the way.
  • Just past the hospital the road forks. Take the right-hand fork (M3 to Muizenberg).
  • Just beyond Mostert's Mill (windmill) on your left, take the Woolsack Drive/University of Cape Town turn-off (Exit 7 Rosebank - M89).
  • Turn right at the traffic lights on Woolsack Drive and go under the bridge and round a hairpin bend to the northern entrance of the campus.

Please check in at the visitors' reception and information office opposite the sports centre, where directions, campus maps and temporary visitors' parking permits may be obtained.

From the southern suburbs the approach is along Rhodes Drive, where the southern entrance to the campus is clearly signposted from the left lane. There is no information office at this entrance – you may continue on Rhodes Drive past the university to the turn-off to the northern entrance, which will give access to the information office as described above.