🎓 SMU APS Calculator (Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University)

South Africa’s only dedicated health sciences university. Use this calculator for SMU admissions.

⚙️ How SMU Calculates APS

• Uses your best 6 subjects

• Life Orientation excluded

• Raw score (max 42)

👉 This means your final score looks like: 34 instead of 340

📊 Why SMU Is Different

SMU only offers health programs:

• Every program is competitive

• Science subjects (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences) count double

• No Humanities, Law, or Business programs available

🎯 Target Scores

• 38–42 → Medicine (MBChB) and Dentistry

• 34–37 → Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy

• 30–33 → Nursing, Radiography, Dietetics

• 28–29 → Extended health programs

• Below 28 → Very unlikely to be accepted

💡 Tip

Focus on improving:

• Life Sciences (mandatory, counts double)

• Physical Sciences (mandatory for Medicine)

• Mathematics (Pure Maths required)

If you don’t have Physical Sciences, you cannot apply for Medicine at SMU. Consider Nursing instead.