TOP TEN 10 BEST ENGINEERING UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA

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TOP TEN 10 BEST ENGINEERING UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA

INTRODUCTION

Are you academically gifted with flair and interest in Engineering and Technology? Are you contemplating of the best University to consider for the engineering course you intend. But do you know that studying these courses in Kenya universities are tasking and so expensive because of the universities commercial based focus and the way out is to be exceptionally intelligent so as to qualify for the government sponsored opportunity to read the engineering course you desire. This article is meant to be an eye opener and a guide for you to know your way through these mazes of engineering education in Kenya.

KENYA, is known all over the world for long distance racing exploits and beautiful scenery and wildlife parks, what is Kenya that makes it tinge? Kenya, is a country in the Eastern region of Africa, which was named after the Mount. Kenya. It lies on the equator close to the East Africa Rift, it is bounded to the North by Ethiopia, and Somalia in the Northern Eastern corner, it is having the Indian ocean as its eastern coastline and has Tanzania as its Southern neighbor and the Uganda and South Sudan as its western neighbors. The country is a regional power in East Africa as its capital, Nairobi is the leading economic hub of East Africa. The country is blessed by fertile soil responsible for its rich agricultural success and the scenic landscape contributes to the country’s tourism boost as the country boast of over 60 national parks and reserves. Kenya is the most industrialized country in East Africa.

Education in Kenya, is structured that the basic formal education is to start at age six, 6, as a free basic public primary education, for 8 years after which the child has an option either to enroll for a trade with the village polytechnic or with a private apprenticeship center or sit for the Kenya certificate of primary education KCPE, which confers an opportunity to proceed to the High School. The High School education terminates with the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education after four years which confers additional opportunity for a University education in any of the 22 government funded universities, 14 private chartered universities and 12 universities with interim letter of authority. but as you already know University education in Kenya is highly commercialized and thus need exceptional success to ease the financial burden of university education especially for a Science course. Admission into the country’s university is the prerogative of the Kenya University and College Central Placement Service. The engineering certificate is a hot cake in Kenya and because of the competition the numbers of qualified engineer are meager, the major public universities offers engineering courses that are fully accredited by the engineers Board of Kenya, but some schools are not accredited. To save yourself of the pain of going to an unaccredited school and save cost and time , I will be showing you the top best engineering universities in Kenya based on Webometrics ranking criteria of research

  1. JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY

JKUAT, as its shortened name evolved from Jomo Kenyatta College of agriculture and Technology established in 1981 as a middle level college in Juja, Kiambu County in Central Kenya. The transition was completed by the JKUAT Act, 1994 which confers on the college full autonomy to offer degrees. This University has a research and innovation focus. The following Engineering programme are offered in this school leading to the award of Bachelor degree in Science:

  • Agricultural and Bio system Engineering (Biomechanical and Processing engineering)
  • Agricultural and Bio system Engineering (Soil, Water and Environmental engineering)
  • Civil engineering,
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
  • Electronic and Computer engineering
  • Geomatics engineering and Geo spatial information Science
  • Geospatial Information Science
  • Marine engineering
  • Mining and Mineral Processing engineering
  • Mechanotric Engineering,
  • Mechanical Engineering.
  • Telecommunication and Information engineering.

Opportunity into this School through the KUCPPS is highly competitive as only the high flyers are the ones admitted here, except through the Self sponsorship Programme.

  1. UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

THE UNIVERISTY OF NAIROBI is one of the 3 successors of the University of East Africa in a tripartite creation that involved Uganda’s Makarere University and the Tanzania, university of Dar es Salaam. The School was splitted from the university of East Africa and became Kenya’s first national university in 1970. The School is not operating on a traditional university structure but on the modern research structure introduced by German Wilhelm Von Humboldt in the 19th century thus placing the university in the mode of the popular Harvard, Yale, Princeton, John Hopkins, MIT, Cornell, Chicago and others. The following engineering degree programme are offered in the institution with the award of Bachelor Science degree:

Civil engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental and Bio systems engineering, Geospatial and Mechanical Engineering with a host of Masters and Doctorate programme keeping in view its research structure.

  1. MOI UNIVERSITY

MOI UNIVERSITY, the second public University of Kenya was established by an Act of Parliament in 1984.The university is located in the Kesses, in Uasin Gishau County of Kenya. The University emphasized Science and Engineering programme offers the following Engineering degree programme with the award of Bachelor engineering courses;

Chemical and Process Engineering, Civil and structural engineering, Electrical and communication engineering, manufacturing industrial and textile engineering and Mechanical and Production Engineering with sizable post graduate programme.

4.DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

This is a public chartered university since 2012, after successful transition from been a constituent college of the Jomo Kenyatta College of agriculture and Technology. The university which is the first Kenya chartered university is located in suburb location of Nyeri the university offers the following engineering programme leading to the award of Bachelor of Science in:

  • CIVIL ENGINEERING
  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
  • ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING,
  • MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING,
  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING,
  1. KENYATTA UNIVERSITY

This is the third public university to be founded in Kenya, it was established in 1985 to operates as a fully fledge university  after a successive evolution from Kenyatta college, constituent college unit of University of Nairobi .Kenyatta is another Research University in Kenya situated in Nairobi and operates a multi-campus structure with the main campus in Kahawa.The engineering courses offers in this institution include: CIVIL ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOSYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ENERGY ENGINEERING AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING,

  1. EGERTON UNIVERSITY

EGERTON UNIVERSITY is the oldest higher institution of learning in Kenya. It was created as Egerton Farm School in 1939 by European Maurice Egerton to cater for the Whites settlers in Kenya in courses in agriculture before it was given a charter as a full public university to run degree programme in 1987.The university runs a multi campus structure with the main campus located at Njoro where the faculty of engineering is located. The engineering programme run by the university lead to the award of Bachelor of Science in Agricultural engineering, Civil and environmental engineering, Electrical and Control engineering and Industrial and Energy engineering.

  1. MASINDA MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

This University is a full fledged public university. The university started as Western college of Arts,  and Applied Science in 1972 before it was upgraded as a constituent college of the Moi University in 2002 and was given full autonomy in   2007. The University has an interim accreditation in the three-engineering course it offers: CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING.

  1. THE MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY OF KENYA

The Multi media University of Kenya is a specialized university focused on ICT and Mass Media development founded in 1948 as the country’s central training school to serve the telecommunication development and personnel training. The University after series of metamorphosis was upgraded to a full-blown university in 2013 by the charter given to it by President Mwai Kibaki after passing through the last phase of been known as the constituent college of Jomo Kenyatta university of Agriculture and Technology. The School in a short time had made its mark in the technology development of the country as it was recognized for its contribution to ICT development in the country’s ICT evolution in 2012 and the institution is the adopted training center for the Skills for Africa Programme SAP in software engineering. Engineering programme offered by the institution include: Electrical and Telecommunciation engineering and the Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering. The University is located in Mbagathi, in Nairobi County, the administrative capital of Kenya.

  1. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASSA

Technical University of Mombasa is one of Kenya most ranked leading university of research with heavy specialization in Science and technology development. The University started from a humble beginning of been an institute for Muslim education when it was created in 1948 before it metamorphosed to Technical institute, to polytechnics and finally was upgraded to a full fledged public university under the name Technical university of Mombasa in 2013. The University is located in Tudor-Mombasa a coastal city of Kenya. The University accredited engineering programme include CIVIL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

  1. MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY

Another good and ranked university accredited to offer engineering in Kenya include Machakos University college, Machakos.

CONCLUSION

Considering these ranks, I believed you are intimated about your preferred choice of university and how to go about it. Wish you success in your academic pursuit.