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The University of Nairobi (UoN) is a collegiate research university based in Nairobi. It is one of the largest universities in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution dates back to 1956, it did not become an independent university until 1970. In this year, the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and the University of Nairobi. University of Nairobi Intake
During the 2011 academic year, the university had 61,912 students, of whom 49,488 were undergraduates and 12,424 postgraduates. The university launched several policy frameworks and introduced self-funded enrollment (also called ‘module 2’) to cope with the rising demand for higher education in Kenya.
Establishment
The inception of the University of Nairobi dates from 1956, with the establishment of the Royal Technical College, which admitted its first group of A-level graduates for technical courses in April of the same year. The Royal Technical College was transformed into the second university college in East Africa on 25 June 1961 by the Scottish mathematician Prof James Morton Hyslop formerly of the University of Witwatersrand under the name Royal College of Nairobi and was admitted into a special relationship with the University of London whereupon it began preparing students in the faculties of Arts, Science and Engineering for award degrees of the University of London. Meanwhile, students in other faculties such as the Faculty of Special Professional Studies (later renamed Faculty of Commerce) and Faculty of Architecture continued to offer diplomas for qualifications of professional bodies/institutions.
On 20 May 1964, the Royal College Nairobi has renamed University College Nairobi as a constituent college of inter-territorial, Federal University of East Africa, and henceforth the enrolled students were to study for college degrees of the University of East Africa and not London as was the case before. In 1970, it transformed into the first national university in Kenya and was renamed the University of Nairobi. The university tops in Kenya’s university ranking and is ranked 7th in Africa and 1698 in the world according to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.
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It is a body corporate established under the Universities Act 2012 of the Laws of Kenya and the Charter.
Through module II and III programmes, opportunity has been opened to thousands of Kenyans and foreigners, on a paying basis, who meet university admission requirements, but who have not been able to access university education due to restricted intake into the regular programmes that is determined by limited resource allocation by Government. In addition to the regular and evening and weekend programmes, classes are conducted at the University’s Extra-Mural Centres located at the country’s county headquarters.
The university is admitting students to undertake courses in the proposed Koitalel Arap Samoei University College for law, business management and education courses that began in January 2015. This is a joint project of the County Government of Nandi and the University of Nairobi
Colleges
The university underwent a major restructuring in 1983, resulting in a decentralisation of the administration, by the creation of six colleges headed by principals.
The six colleges are College of Architecture and Engineering, College of Health Sciences, College of Biological and Physical Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences and College of Education and External Studies.
Faculties/schools/centres/institutes
- African Women’s Studies Centre
- Center for Sustainable Dryland Ecosystems and Societies
- Center of Open and Distance Learning
- Centre For Biotechnology & Bioinformatics
- Centre for Hiv Prevention And Research
- Centre for Urban Innovations
- Education For Change
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation]
- Institute For Development Studies
- Institute of Anthropology, Gender & African Studies
- Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies
- Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology
- Institute of Tropical & Infectious Diseases
- Kenya Science Campus
- Kisumu Campus
- Mombasa Campus
- Open, Distance and eLearning Centre
- Physical Sciences
- Population Studies And Research Institute
- School of Arts and Design
- School of Biological Sciences
- School of Business
- School of Computing and Informatics
- School of Continuing and Distance Education
- School of Dental Sciences
- School of Economics
- School of Education
- School of Engineering
- School of Journalism
- School of Law
- School of Mathematics
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Physical Science
- School of Public Health
- School of the Built Environment
- The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies