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Revealed: List of university Degree courses scrapped by the Commission for University Education, CUE

Hillary Kangwana
A university graduate. The Commission for University Education has scrapped 133 degree courses offered by Kenyan Universities.

|Photo/ File- A university graduate.

The Commission for University Education, CUE, has scrapped a total of 133 courses being offered at local universities. The Commission terms these courses ‘useless’ causing agony to thousands of students who may be undertaking the courses or who have graduated. The most hit University is Tom Mboya University College which offers 25 unapproved courses. CUE castigates universities for starting up new courses without an aim of minting cash; when they know that they lack both human and physical resources to support content delivery.

At a glance, this is the list of unapproved courses being offered at some universities:

  1. Applied statistics with Information Technology
  2. Actuarial Science
  3. Bachelor of Science, Botany
  4. Bachelor of Arts, Economics
  5. Bachelor of Arts, Counseling Psychology
  6. Bachelor of Arts, Geography
  7. Bachelor of Arts, Development and Policy Studies
  8. Bachelor of Arts, Community Development
  9. Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
  10. Bachelor of Arts, Peace Education
  11. Bachelor of Science, Informatics and Natural Resource Management
  12. Bachelor of Science, Anthropology
  13. Bachelor of Arts, Kiswahili Studies
  14. Bachelor of Arts, Public Administration and Governance
  15. Bachelor of Education, Sciences
  16. Bachelor of Education, Arts
  17. Bachelor of Arts, International Relations
  18. Bachelor of Science, Human Nutrition and Diatetics
  19. Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry
  20. Bachelor of Science, Public Health
  21. Bachelor of Commerce
  22. Bachelor of Education, Early Childhood Education

Here is the list of affected universities and the number of unapproved courses that have been rejected by the CUE:

  1. Garissa University (10),
  2. Alupe University College (10),
  3. Kenya Highlands Evangelical University (7),
  4. Lukenya University (6),
  5. Kisii University (5),
  6. Kenyatta University (4),
  7. Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (4),
  8. Moi University (3)
  9. Kabarak University (2).
  10. University of Embu (6),
  11. Turkana University College (5),
  12. The East African University (4),
  13. Technical University of Mombasa (2),
  14. University of East African Baraton (2),
  15. Karatina University (4)
  16. Great Lake University, Kisumu (8),
  17. African University (3),
  18. Bomet University College (1),
  19. Catholic University of East Africa (2),
  20. Co-Operative University of Kenya (3),
  21. Gretsa University (1),
  22. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Institute of Science and Technology (6)
  23. Kenya Methodist University (2).
  24. Tom Mboya University College (25)

The 133 courses that have been scrapped by the Commission for University Education are (the affected capacities for respective courses have been indicated in brackets; totaling to over 10,000). Bachelor of Education, Arts is the most hit with over 1,200 vacancies unapproved:

The Commission of University Education has provided a list of approved Degree Courses at respective Public and Private Universities in Kenya. Click here to view/ download the list of Approved Degree Programmes: List of Approved Degree Courses

For a list of approved universities, in Kenya, click on this link: List of accredited universities in Kenya

Students who sat for their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, exams are currently revising their degree choices via the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service, KUCCPS, portal.

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