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Of the 49 Public universities in Kenya, University of Nairobi ranks highest on research impact (958,420 citations). Next come Moi University (#2 in Kenya) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (#3 in Kenya). The universities on this list offer 255 matching courses between them.
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Below them, universities follow their research output: University of Nairobi is cited most (958,420 citations). 3 universities have neither a QS position nor a research record yet and appear at the end, marked "Not yet ranked".
49 are public and 0 private (100% public). The oldest is St. Pauls University, founded in 1903. Kenya Medical Training College is the largest, with 80,000 students.
By level: 149 bachelor's, 49 diploma, 22 master's and 13 foundation. The most common subjects are Business & Management (64), Social Sciences & Psychology (38), Education (27) and Computer Science & IT (22). The usual length is 4 years and 2 years. 83% are full-time. Start dates lean to Fall (100% of courses with a stated intake) and Spring (94% of courses with a stated intake). Moi University offers the widest choice, with 68 of these courses.
University of Nairobi (#1 in Kenya), Moi University (#2 in Kenya) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (#3 in Kenya) lead this list. QS World positions come first; the rest are ranked by research impact.
49 public and 0 private universities are on this list.
Most listed courses run 4 years, with 2 years the next most common.
Fall is the main intake — 100% of courses with a stated start date begin then, and Spring is the second.
Moi University, with 68, ahead of Scott Christian University (55).
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