University of Eldoret, Courses Offered, Application, Intake And Fees

About University of Eldoret

The University of Eldoret is a public university situated approximately 9 Km along the Eldoret-Ziwa road in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County. The University occupies 1,050 acres of land. It was founded in 1946 by the white settlers as a Large Scale Farmers Training Centre.

In 1984, it was converted to a teachers’ training college and renamed Moi Teachers’ Training College to offer Diploma Science Teachers Training. Due to the double intake crisis, the College was taken over by Moi University as a Campus in 1990, renaming it Chepkoilel Campus.

From 1990, the University made it a campus of natural, basic and applied for science programs. In August 2010, H.E. The President, through Legal Notice No. 125 of 13th August 2010 upgraded the campus into a University College with the name Chepkoilel University College, a Constituent College of Moi University.

Upon the award of Charter, the University College has renamed the University of Eldoret. The University of Eldoret is a large institution with the current student enrollment standing at over 10,300 students spread across the following School; -Science, Business and Management Sciences, Education, Agriculture and Biotechnology, Natural Resource Management, Engineering, Human Resource Development, and Environmental Sciences. The staff complement stands at 1,119.

The University of Eldoret is one of the 22 public universities in Kenya and situated approximately 9 km along the Eldoret-Ziwa road in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County. It was founded in 1946 by the white settlers as a Large Scale Farmers Training Centre. In 1984, it was converted to a teachers’ training college and renamed Moi Teachers’ Training College to offer Diploma Science Teachers Training. Due to the double intake crisis, the College was taken over by Moi University as a Campus in 1990, renaming it Chepkoilel Campus. From 1990, the University made it a campus of natural, basic and applied for science programs.

In August 2010, H.E. The President, through Legal Notice No. 125 of 13 August 2010 upgraded the campus into a University College with the name Chepkoilel University College, a Constituent College of Moi University. Upon the award of Charter by H.E. The President on March 2013, the University College was renamed the University of Eldoret.

Vision

A premier University that nurtures global leaders and innovators.

Mission

To provide quality education, training, research, and consultancy in Science, Agriculture and Technology to meet the needs and aspirations of a dynamic society

Motto

Flame of Knowledge and Innovation

Core Values

Integrity: We aim to espouse transparency and integrity in our actions and conduct.
Innovativeness: Embracing change and continuous improvement.
Customer satisfaction: We aim to deliver quality services to our customers and to honor our commitments.
Competitiveness: We are committed to global visibility and competitiveness in our academic pursuits.
Equity: Fairness and equal opportunities to all.
Responsiveness: We will exercise awareness of the needs of our stakeholders.
Inclusivity

Quality Policy Statement

The University of Eldoret is committed to delivering quality teaching, research, outreach and consultancy services that meet the expectations of customers, comply with the ISO 9001:2015 standard and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements and continually improve the quality system effectiveness through periodical reviews at appropriate levels.

Our Objectives

To excel in teaching, research, consultancy, and outreach.
To acquire, maintain, preserve and organize the collection of library resources for training.
To facilitate access to secure accommodation and provide adequate health services and recreational facilities for holistic development.
To advance in science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development.
To acquire, develop and maintain quality infrastructure for academic excellence.
To attract, recruit, develop and retain high-quality staff of both genders.
To ensure revenue growth through effective management of costs and resource mobilization to meet our financial obligations.
To initiate and mainstream environmentally sound management systems.
To establish and strengthen networking, partnerships, and linkages.

Guiding Principles

The Strategic Plan and orientation are informed by the following principles:

The University wishes to blend the current programs with research and extension;
The University will foster the integration of its teaching, research, extension and consultancy services;
The University will foster intellectual and cultural diversity in an environment that enhances individual growth and development;
The University will recognize its corporate social responsibility to the community;
The University will advance in science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development and;
The University will train and develop informed practical, innovative and self–reliant graduates of international repute.

University of Eldoret Schools

School of Agriculture and Biotechnology

The School of Agriculture and Biotechnology (SAGR) is one of the premier schools at the University of Eldoret renown for being among the topmost in delivering academics programs, agricultural research, innovation and extension services. The school offers competitive agricultural-based courses tailor-made to satisfy the growing market demand in agriculture. These programs are offered at various levels as short courses and certificates, diplomas, Bachelors’s, Masters’s, and Doctorate. It hosts six functional departments that include; Seed, Crop and Horticultural Sciences (SCHS), Animal Science, Family, and Consumer Sciences, Soil Science, Biotechnology, and Agricultural Economics & Rural Development.

The departments have come a long way since its inception in expanding and strengthening its programs with the latter being recently constituted to address the rising demand in agricultural socioeconomic, agribusiness and rural extension. A total of 7 short-courses, 4 certificates, 10 diplomas, 1 post-graduate diploma, 12 bachelor’s, 14 masters, and 9 doctorate programs are offered in the school. New programs have been constituted and are in the pipeline for approval by the senate. These include; Ph.D. program in Community Nutrition, M Sc. in Agriculture and Gender, B Sc in Agricultural Information System and B Sc in agricultural community development.

The School is involved in a number of research activities and extension services through collaborations with government, non-governmental research institutions and private service providers to test and deliver cutting edge technologies and products to the farming communities. These collaborations have seen a number of MoUs signed between the partners and the university which have enabled the school to achieve invaluable benefits rippling from improved infrastructure (laboratory and equipment), awarding of M Sc. and Ph.D. graduate scholarships and securing greater networks for undergraduate student industrial attachments.

In a bid to address the emerging issues, the school has continually embraced multi-disciplinary research approaches through strengthening linkages within and outside the school that has yielded remarkable output and outcomes. To foster the capacity building of the community, the school had organized a number of workshops and training to communicate findings and demonstrate new technologies.

Departments

Department of Animal Science
Department of Biotechnology
Department of Soil Science
Department of Seed, Crop and Horticultural Sciences
Department of Family and Consumer Services
Department of Agricultural Economics

School of Business and Management Sciences

The School of Business and Management Sciences offers a wide range of market-driven programs in Management, Entrepreneurship, Project Planning and Management, Tourism, Hotel, and Hospitality Management. The programs range from Diploma to Postgraduate level. The School’s strategic networks with the industry have enabled the packaging of training programs to be in line with the current industry challenges and demands.

Our mission as a school is to equip learners with knowledge and skills in business and management sciences through teaching, research, mentorship, and partnerships with local and international institutions. We produce scholars for domestic and global markets. The school has three departments. The department of Business Management offers courses that equip learners with skills and competencies in Finance, Banking, Accounting, Purchasing and Supplies, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Project Planning.

The department of Tourism and Tour Operations Management produces highly innovative and broadly interdisciplinary oriented professionals in aspects of tourism planning, development and tour operations management. The department of Hotel and Hospitality equips learns with management skills to enable them to effectively run hospitality establishments locally and globally.

Departments

Department of Business management
Department of Tourism, Tour and Travel Management
Department of Hotel and Hospitality

School of Education

The School of Education has been in the existence in this University since 2010. It was established to provide the quality Teacher Education program with a focus on the preparation and production of innovative and competitive school teachers. This is based on the quality objectives of the School which are to prepare prospective teachers; conduct research, out-research education and extension services, consultancies and establish educational linkages and partnerships with stake-holders in Teacher education programs. These objectives are the drivers and guidelines of the operations of the School.

The School of Education has eight established departments namely: the Centre for Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Management, Educational Psychology, Foundations of Education, Science Education, Social Sciences and Technology Education.

These departments offer eight degree programmes which are Bachelor of Education (Agricultural Education), Bachelor of Education (Arts), Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Development and Primary Education), Bachelor of Education (Home Science and Technology), Bachelor of Education (Science Education), Bachelor of Education (Special Needs Education) and Bachelor of Education (Technology education). The flagship courses of the School of Education are Ethics of Teaching and Ethics of Teaching Profession.

Currently, the School has a teaching staff force of fifty-six and support staff of twenty-four. This staff-level is made up of males and females. The present population of the students in the School of Education, excluding those from collaborating colleges, is eight thousand two hundred and twenty-six categorized as Government-sponsored (GSSP), Self-sponsored (PSSP), Regular and School-Based students, Diploma and Post-Graduate studies students. These students are based at the Main and University’s Eldoret Town Campus.

The School of Education has a new ultra-modern School of Education Complex structure that it moved early this (2016) year. This building has both office and teaching spaces which has greatly eased the pressure on the then-existing provisions. Besides occupancy of the structure by the School, the university has installed network services and security appliances to safeguard the structure and users.

Departments

Centre for Teacher Education
Department of Technology Education
Department of Science Education
Department of Social Sciences
Department of Educational Psychology
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Department of Educational Management
Department of Foundation of Education

School of Engineering

The School of Engineering was founded in June 2011 and continues to offer quality education. It is based on a strong tradition of excellence in applied sciences at the University. Approved programs in teaching and research are tailored to address clientele challenges.

The School offers both undergraduate and post-graduate studies and is prepared to meet challenges of increasing student population in line with the government’s Vision 2030 strategy. The School programs consist of coursework, laboratories, workshops, projects, field, and industrial attachments.

These programs are offered with a general objective of training would-be practicing engineers with the knowledge, skills, management, and competence in design, construction, operation, and maintenance of engineering systems. Opportunities for graduates include engineering firms, government ministries, and agencies, the private sector, self-employment, among others.

Departments

1. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Life on earth needs a sustainable supply of food, water, and energy in order to feed and sustain a growing population under a variable and changing the climate.

Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers utilize technology to connect the living world of plants, soil, water and animals with the technology of engineering (systems, structures, and machines). Programs currently offered are B.Eng. (Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering) and M.Sc. in Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering (Soil & Water, Power & Machinery and Processing Engineering options).

2.Civil and Structural Engineering
Civil Engineers understand and integrate the natural environment with the requirements of people and engineering science in order to design and construct solutions that provide infrastructure and services, using the best available design and technology. Civil engineering solutions, in the form of water supply, drainage and sanitation infra-structures increase the quality of life by eliminating the sources of infections and diseases. Problems of traffic congestion require the development of new, mass transportation systems. While extreme weather events, and forms of unrest, require structural design solutions.

3.Mechanical and Production Engineering
Mechanical Engineering is broad-based, covering areas such as machine design, materials engineering, aerodynamics, power generation, mechatronics, and dynamics to name a few.

School of Environmental Studies

The School of Environmental Studies is part of the national policy towards preparation for the management of natural resources and the environment for sustainable development in Kenya. The school focuses on both undergraduate and postgraduate programs leading to Bachelors’s, Masters and Doctoral degrees.

To develop human resources as per the national needs for sustainable development and also building research capacity based on national policies. The school provides consultancy services in different counties to ensure accountability and continuity.

Similarly, we provide extension services through an outreach program to ensure that the best information reaches the intended user who can be an individual, an agency or a governmental organization. The independent high powered experts aim to protect the environment while ensuring adherence to sustainable development.

The school also collaborates with other institutions in the region like LVEMP, KVDA, and North Rift Counties through Regional Centre for Expertise (RCE) in environmental education. There is established collaboration with NEMA and Galilee Institute of Management in Israel on the training of environmental experts.

The school collaborates with other institutions that include Lake Victoria Water Services Board, Eldoret Water and Sanitation Services (ELDOWAS), GDC, and Africa Diatomite Industries among others. The school also provides services such as spatial plans through its professionals in environmental planning; we facilitate urban planning, urban design, and application of GIS and Remote Sensing in environmental management. We also provide professional advice on waste management in different organizations and municipalities/counties

Departments

Department of Applied Environmental & Social Sciences
Department of Environmental Earth Sciences
Department of Environmental Biology and Health
Department of Environmental Monitoring, Planning and Management

School of Human Resource Development

Vision
To be a dynamic hub that provides solutions to human resource development challenges in Kenya and the continent in general.

Mission
To enhance excellence in training human resources those execute their managerial roles in a professional and ethical manner.

Quality Objectives
Teaching and learning: To provide quality teaching and learning environment that meets the expectations of students and stakeholders.
Curricula: To develop new programs and continually review the current ones to meet the needs of the labor market.
Staff and students: To ensure the free flow of information between staff and students for the benefit of quality teaching.

Departments

Department of Communication Studies
Department of Quantitative Skills and Development Studies

School of Natural Resource Management

The school of Natural Resource Management has three departments including Forestry and wood Science, Wildlife Management, and Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

The Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences had a number of activities in this academic year. The Department runs diploma, bachelor’s, Masters and Ph.D. academic programs. During the course of this year, the department engaged in a review of curricula to make them responsive to the current job market.

From one original BSc. curricula, the department came up with four different curricula that have been packaged in the CUE format and is awaiting approval for them to be mounted from the next academic year. These included BSc. in Aquatic Resource Management, Aquaculture, Capture Fisheries, and Postharvest Technology, and Coastal and Marine Resource Management. The reviews of the postgraduate curricula are ongoing.

Department

Department of Forestry and Wood Science
Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science
Department of Wildlife management

School of Science

The School of Science aims at producing graduates with practical and intellectual skills in natural sciences and mathematics appropriate to the needs of the present and future Kenyan society. The school also expects some of the graduates to pursue higher education to enhance scientific knowledge and provide solutions to problems facing humanity in this 21st century. It seeks to be a world-class center in pursuit of scientific knowledge.

The School consists of the following four Departments: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science and Biological Sciences.

Departments

Department of Biological Sciences
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Physics

School of Economics

The school of economics was established in 2014 and it has grown to a population of about 350 students. The school houses Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Diploma in Economics.

The school graduated 37 pioneer students with BA Economics in November 2016. The course seeks to tap into opportunities offered in the Banking sector, Insurance, Consultancy, Telecommunication, NGO, Oil and gas and allied sector.

The experience gained by our students equips them with a mindset of being innovative and coming up with problem-solving ideas as exhibited in the 2016 university exhibitions in Mombasa ASK show and University of Eldoret Agribusiness Trade fair. In the year 2015, two students from the graduating class were selected to attend an address by President Barack Obama at Kasarani as a way of preparing and exposing them for future leadership.

In November 2016, 10 students from SECO out of 42 students from other Universities in Kenya were interviewed for positions of Research Assistantship by EACC. SECO wish them well and success.

SECO is currently in the process of pursuing collaborations with International partners such as with an Egyptian Education Institution. Members of the School have carried out consultancies for International Organisations such as World Vision.

Departments

Department of Pure Economics
Department of Applied Economics