Published on March 28, 2025 by Agencies for Kenya Online News
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The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has opened the placement portal for admissions in various learning institutions.
Kuccps in a notice on Friday said the placement is targeting 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates who will be applying for degree courses.
It also targets KCSE candidates from the year 2000 to 2024 who are looking to apply for courses in Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Technical Trainer College (TTC).
Interested applicants are advised to log in to students.kuccps.net or https://t.co/6ssPlKURCd to apply.
“Attention 2024 KCSE Cohort! You can now apply for degree courses via the KUCCPS official portal. Deadline is April 21, 2025,” the notice said.
KUCCPS noted that there are 40 public universities, 29 private universities, and one Open University of Kenya available learning institutions to apply.
The group is also eligible for the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB).
A further 263 public colleges are available and eligible for government scholarships and HELB loan, with an additional 141 public colleges (KMTC and colleges in other ministries) and university TVET available for applications.
During the 2024 KCSE examinations, a total of 962,512 candidates sat for the exams as compared to the 899,453 in 2023.
Out of this 246, 391 of them attained the minimum grade C+ making them eligible for University admission.
KUCCPS was established in 2014 to coordinate the selection of students for enrolment in universities, teacher training colleges, national polytechnics, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutes and other training institutions.
