The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has announced the date when it will open the portal for inter-university transfers.
Speaking during the release of the placement results, KUCCPS CEO Agnes Wahome announced that the portal will be opened starting from June 5, 2024, for willing students to apply for transfers to other institutions.
Once placement is completed, KUCCPS opens portal for candidates to have an opportunity to apply for inter-university transfers.
The inter-university transfers enable those students who were not pleased with the institutions in which they were placed to have an opportunity to transfer to the institution of their choice.
Students can change the institution where they have been placed or change both institution and course subject to the applicable cut-off points through the inter-institutional transfer process.
The placement service however warns that this process is not undertaken by everyone as it is dependent on the minimum requirements such as cut-off points garnered by the students and approval by both institutions.
Inter-university transfer
For eligibility of a university transfer, the applying student must have first been placed by the placement service to the program that one is seeking a transfer from.
Also, the program that a student applies to must have been on offer in the year the applicant was placed.
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One is only allowed to apply to transfer to one program or course and is only allowed to transfer once for the duration of the program placed.
An applicant is advised to first view the available programs and their requirements before requesting for transfer.
For applications for inter-university transfer, students can visit KUCCPS student portal to submit individual applications before the deadline.
Dr. Wahome during the release of the placement results however noted that the service has not yet set a deadline date as they are giving the students time to decide more on their options.
Upon submitting applications, the student may monitor the progress of their application via the student’s portal.
KUCCPS 2024 Placement
According to Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu, 890,654 students were eligible for placement as per the performance data provided by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC).
“Following the release of the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Examination Results, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) provided performance data for 895,232 candidates to KUCCPS. Of these, 890,654 are Kenyan citizens who are eligible for placement,” said Machogu.
In the data released by KUCCPS, a total number of 153,301 candidates who sat 2023 KCSE have been placed to pursue degree programs.
Out of these, 134,743 students have been placed to join public universities while 18,558 have been placed to attend private institutions.
Meanwhile, the placement service revealed that 11,991 students who scored C+ and above opted for diploma courses.
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A total of 75,718 applicants secured places in Technical Vocational and Educational Training (TVET) institutions, including those who qualified for degree programs but opted for diploma courses.
“85% of 2023 KCSE candidates with C+ and above made applications where 76.2% opted for Degree courses while the rest opted for Diploma (11,991),” said KUCCPS.
Further statistics revealed that male applicants continued to dominate placement to Degree programs, sustaining a trend that has been observed since the beginning of the central placement system.
In contrast, female students were the majority of those placed in Technical Vocational and Educational Training (TVET) Centers, from the 2020/2021 Cycle to the present, according to the placement service.
In terms of selected courses, Bachelor of Education attracted the highest number of applicants.
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