Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. George Magoha, has released the 2022/2023 Universities and Colleges Student Placement Results.
Speaking at Eastleigh High School in Nairobi where he also commissioned a new CBC classroom, Prof. Magoha announced that 250,052 students submitted applications for placement to universities, TVET institutions and TTCs, and all applicants were successfully placed.
90% of the 2021 KCSE candidates who attained a mean grade of C + and above and applied were competitively placed, with 85% of them getting Degree programmes and 5% taking up courses in TVET Institutions.
Of the 144,466 Kenyan citizen candidates who qualified for degree programmes, 123,963 (85.8%) were placed to universities (67,237 male and 56,726 female).
Some 16,310 candidates who qualified for degree programmes in the 2021 KCSE examination did not submit applications and may have opted to pursue other opportunities.
