Students Increasingly Shun Degree For Diploma Courses In Latest Placement

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What you need to know:
  • Universities have a cumulative capacity of 278,006 for degree programmes.
  • Only 153,274 students were placed out of the 201,146 who qualified for admission.
  • A total of 47,872 students who qualified for university admission after attaining a mean grade of C+ in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) did not choose to study for a degree.

    According to data by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS), public and private universities remain under-enrolled for the various programmes they offer.

    Universities have a cumulative capacity of 278,006 for degree programmes but only 153,274 students were placed out of the 201,146 who qualified for admission (55 per cent).

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    Competition for courses at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) has also increasedafter 56,516 candidates applied for admission into the medical courses.

    The campuses have a cumulative capacity of 17,172. KUCCPS has announced that 19,653 candidates have been placed, an over-enrolment of 2,481.

    Additionally, 199,980 have been placed in diploma courses, with thosewho scored a mean grade of D+ and D- (280,174) being placed in certificate courses while those who had D- and E (213,932) have been placed to study artisan courses.

    A total of 899,232 candidates results were presented to KUCCPS for placement.

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