Latest KUCCPS placement news for the 2020 KCSE candidates

News Blaze Digital Team | April 19, 2024 | KUCCPS portal | No Comments

All the 2020 KCSE candidates will get places at Universities, after all. This ends the speculations that the Government was planning to change the minimum entry grade to university from the normal C+ (plus). The process of placing the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Candidates into higher institutions of learning has been started.

The candidates will now be able to know their courses and higher learning institutions they will join. The Process will be carried out by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS).

Education Cabinet Secretary, Professor George Magoha, on Monday 24th May, launched the selection process at the Joseph Kangethe primary school in Nairobi. Over 143,149 candidates who scored the minimum university entry grade of (C+, plus and above) will secure a slot in both private and public universities under the government-sponsored programme.

The candidates with C+ (plus) and above will now jostle for the available vacancies and courses in universities. Of these; 893 scored A (plain), 6,420 had A- (minus) while, 14,427 garnered grade B+ (plus). Others were: 25,207 (B plain), 38,194 (B- minus) and 57,999 (C+ plus).

CS George Magoha says the TVET system and Universities have places for all the 747,171 candidates who sat for the 2020 KCSE exams.

Other KCSE 2020 candidates, who will not make it for the degree courses, will be placed in colleges and TVET institutions.

Previous admissions

The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) emerged the most preferred university after leading in the numbers of new students’ admissions for the 2020/2021 academic year.

In the admissions results released by the Kenya universities and Colleges Central Placement Service, KUCCPS, the institution admitted 6,006 students who sat for the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, examinations. University of Nairobi, UON, cliched second spot after getting 5,894 new students. In third position was Maseno university that got a share of 5,716 admissions. Kenyatta, Kisii and Moi universities got 5,659, 5,566 and 4,948 students; respectively.

This was the third year in a row that JKUAT was taking the lion share of the new students’ slots.

Kabarak and Daystar universities were the only universities that were able to admit more students than their declared capacity. The two are private universities.

The table below shows the KUCCPS degree placement figures per university 2020/2021 academic year;

S/N	UNIVERSITY NAME	PROGRAMMES	CAPACITY	PLACED	% FILLED	MALE	FEMALE	% MALE	% FEMALE
1	JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY	91	6,291	6,006	95.5%	3,327	2,679	55.4%	44.6%
2	UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI	60	6,215	5,894	94.8%	3,280	2,614	55.6%	44.4%
3	MASENO UNIVERSITY	78	6,765	5,716	84.5%	3,057	2,659	53.5%	46.5%
4	KENYATTA UNIVERSITY	88	5,783	5,659	97.9%	3,009	2,650	53.2%	46.8%
5	KISII UNIVERSITY	83	6,375	5,566	87.3%	3,308	2,258	59.4%	40.6%
6	MOI UNIVERSITY	64	5,068	4,948	97.6%	2,656	2,292	53.7%	46.3%
7	MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY	59	4,885	4,400	90.1%	2,366	2,034	53.8%	46.2%
8	CHUKA UNIVERSITY	55	4,750	3,858	81.2%	2,107	1,751	54.6%	45.4%
9	KIRINYAGA UNIVERSITY	39	4,310	3,457	80.2%	2,326	1,131	67.3%	32.7%
10	MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY	69	3,720	3,297	88.6%	1,991	1,306	60.4%	39.6%
11	EGERTON UNIVERSITY	61	4,010	3,281	81.8%	1,893	1,388	57.7%	42.3%
12	PWANI UNIVERSITY	50	3,655	2,964	81.1%	1,741	1,223	58.7%	41.3%
13	RONGO UNIVERSITY	40	3,200	2,749	85.9%	1,645	1,104	59.8%	40.2%
14	MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	55	6,440	2,624	40.7%	1,708	916	65.1%	34.9%
15	UNIVERSITY OF ELDORET	32	3,435	2,560	74.5%	1,440	1,120	56.3%	43.8%
16	MURANGA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY	33	2,645	2,432	91.9%	1,515	917	62.3%	37.7%
17	KABARAK UNIVERSITY	29	2,325	2,327	100.1%	1,149	1,178	49.4%	50.6%
18	KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY	27	2,645	2,268	85.7%	1,234	1,034	54.4%	45.6%
19	MAASAI MARA UNIVERSITY	47	2,895	2,233	77.1%	1,181	1,052	52.9%	47.1%
20	UNIVERSITY OF EMBU	34	2,900	2,198	75.8%	1,297	901	59.0%	41.0%
21	TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA	40	2,330	2,170	93.1%	1,518	652	70.0%	30.0%
22	CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EAST AFRICA	28	2,440	2,091	85.7%	918	1,173	43.9%	56.1%
23	KCA UNIVERSITY	17	2,060	2,062	100.1%	1,215	847	58.9%	41.1%
24	DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY	28	1,990	1,966	98.8%	1,319	647	67.1%	32.9%
25	ZETECH UNIVERSITY	11	2,150	1,943	90.4%	1,164	779	59.9%	40.1%
26	KARATINA UNIVERSITY	36	2,730	1,926	70.5%	1,041	885	54.0%	46.0%
27	SOUTH EASTERN KENYA UNIVERSITY	35	2,450	1,925	78.6%	1,162	763	60.4%	39.6%
28	TOM MBOYA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	31	2,180	1,861	85.4%	1,154	707	62.0%	38.0%
29	MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY	34	2,360	1,855	78.6%	1,088	767	58.7%	41.3%
30	JARAMOGI OGINGA ODINGA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	24	2,148	1,835	85.4%	1,170	665	63.8%	36.2%
31	KIBABII UNIVERSITY	20	2,260	1,794	79.4%	1,085	709	60.5%	39.5%
32	LAIKIPIA UNIVERSITY	25	2,170	1,777	81.9%	924	853	52.0%	48.0%
33	UNIVERSITY OF KABIANGA	31	2,405	1,734	72.1%	961	773	55.4%	44.6%
34	TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA	53	1,662	1,667	100.3%	1,080	587	64.8%	35.2%
35	UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA, BARATON	26	1,860	1,647	88.5%	981	666	59.6%	40.4%
36	CO-OPERATIVE UNIVERSITY OF KENYA	17	2,030	1,438	70.8%	737	701	51.3%	48.7%
37	MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY OF KENYA		1,417	1,392	98.2%	893	499	64.2%	35.8%
38	THARAKA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	24	1,710	1,380	80.7%	800	580	58.0%	42.0%
39	TAITA TAVETA UNIVERSITY	17	1,600	1,335	83.4%	903	432	67.6%	32.4%
40	PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY OF EAST AFRICA	10	1,240	1,169	94.3%	654	515	55.9%	44.1%
41	KAIMOSI FRIENDS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	13	1,250	1,164	93.1%	662	502	56.9%	43.1%
42	PIONEER INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	4	1,200	1,157	96.4%	645	512	55.7%	44.3%
43	ST PAULS UNIVERSITY	15	1,070	1,023	95.6%	535	488	52.3%	47.7%
44	LUKENYA UNIVERSITY	6	1,100	973	88.5%	545	428	56.0%	44.0%
45	GARISSA UNIVERSITY	13	860	783	91.0%	514	269	65.6%	34.4%
46	MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF AFRICA	3	750	715	95.3%	362	353	50.6%	49.4%
47	BOMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	14	705	650	92.2%	308	342	47.4%	52.6%
48	KENYA HIGHLANDS EVANGELICAL UNIVERSITY	6	820	619	75.5%	349	270	56.4%	43.6%
49	SCOTT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY	10	610	552	90.5%	311	241	56.3%	43.7%
50	AFRICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY	13	580	541	93.3%	237	304	43.8%	56.2%
51	GRETSA UNIVERSITY	5	730	525	71.9%	280	245	53.3%	46.7%
52	KIRIRI WOMENS UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	5	650	505	77.7%	–	505	0.0%	100.0%
53	UMMA UNIVERSITY	9	710	498	70.1%	291	207	58.4%	41.6%
54	THE EAST AFRICAN UNIVERSITY	4	500	450	90.0%	293	157	65.1%	34.9%
55	TURKANA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	11	740	432	58.4%	260	172	60.2%	39.8%
56	AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	8	570	423	74.2%	214	209	50.6%	49.4%
57	DAYSTAR UNIVERSITY	12	330	337	102.1%	146	191	43.3%	56.7%
58	TANGAZA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	7	330	313	94.8%	142	171	45.4%	54.6%
59	MARIST INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	2	300	292	97.3%	144	148	49.3%	50.7%
60	KENYA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD EAST UNIVERSITY	7	360	288	80.0%	133	155	46.2%	53.8%
61	ALUPE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	8	320	276	86.3%	159	117	57.6%	42.4%
62	UZIMA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	4	260	227	87.3%	149	78	65.6%	34.4%
63	RAF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	2	200	195	97.5%	110	85	56.4%	43.6%
64	KOITALEEL SAMOEI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	3	210	186	88.6%	98	88	52.7%	47.3%
65	PAN AFRICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY	7	140	128	91.4%	66	62	51.6%	48.4%
66	RIARA UNIVERSITY	5	90	90	100.0%	47	43	52.2%	47.8%
67	KENYATTA UNIVERSITY – MAMA NGINA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	3	90	83	92.2%	53	30	63.9%	36.1%
68	INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY	3	150	2	1.3%	–	2	0.0%	100.0%
	GRAND TOTAL	605	145,129	122,831	84.6%	70,050	52,781	57.0%	43.0%