Now KU starts offering medical programmes

KU is currently ranked at position 80 in Africa by the Web of World Universities. It is known for training in the fields of education, visual and performing arts, economics, and tourism.

Recently, the university started degree programmes in nursing, pathology, pre-clinical sciences, pharmacy, and medical psychology, effectively joining the league of those offering training in medical fields.

Other than the main campus in Kahawa, KU has five other campuses in Ruiru, Parklands, Kitui, and the recently launched Pwani University College.

The institution admits both government sponsored and privately sponsored students to its certificate, diploma and degree courses.

Other courses offered are in applied sciences, agriculture and enterprise development, engineering, law, and environmental studies.

The post-graduate courses offered in the college are in marketing, finance,  strategic management, project management, entrepreneurship, education and technology, exercise and sports science, among others.

An Institute Of Open, Distance and e-Learning at the university provides on-line academic programmes to students who opt to study remotely.

Through active links with a number of institutions across the world, the university also organises exchange programmes for staff and students to undertake collaborative research.

Kenyatta University started in 1965 when the British Government handed over the Templer Barracks to the Kenya Government.

The barracks were immediately converted into an institution of higher learning known as Kenyatta College, divided into two sections – the Secondary Education Division (SED) and the Teacher Education Division (TED).

Following an Act of Parliament of 1970, Kenyatta College became a constituent College of the University of Nairobi.

The name then changed from Kenyatta College to Kenyatta University College. It admitted its first batch of 200 students in 1972 to pursue studies leading to Bachelor of Education degree.

It was after an acute shortage of teachers in some subjects in the country that the government transferred the Faculty of Education of the University of Nairobi to Kenyatta University College Campus.

From then on, the college became prominent for university studies in education.

It became a full university in 1985, and it is now among the six major public universities in the country.