A total of 134,706 applicants have been placed in various public universities in the 2024-25 placement cycle, Higher Education and Research PS Beatrice Inyangla has revealed.
In a report submitted to Departmental Committee on Education, Inyangala further revealed that a total of 18,557 applicants have been placed in private universities during the same period.
She noted that the placement capacity in all the 39 public universities and 30 private universities is 220,434 and 57,322 respectively.
The PS further noted that students are placed based on merit and choice.
“During the current placement cycle, 14, 564 students applied for Medicine which is the most expensive academic programme,” she noted.
She said the approved capacity was 689 and a total of 656 of students who qualified were placed on their first choice.
“Another 30 students were placed based on their second choice and 22 based on their third choice while seven were placed on their fourth choice, while 59 were placed based on affirmative action,” she explained.
The PS noted that the new funding model (NFM) was developed over a period of eight months with a phased implementation commencing with KCSE 2022.
“It will be implemented over a period of four to six years with monitoring, evaluation, accountability, results and lesson learning,” she told the committee.
Inyangala further said the NFM was conceptualised and tested based on actual data collected from the field.
“It followed the modelling life cycle best practices,” she said.
Inyangala said the research was modelled on historical analysis funding of higher education in Kenya through the World Bank Development Policy Operations 3 and 4.
President William Ruto launched the New Funding Model (NFM) on May 3, 2023.
The Higher Educations Loans Board (HELB), the Universities Fund, Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) and universities under the State Department for Higher Education and Research have been implementing the NFM in the Financial Year 2023-24.
