The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) is expected to unveil the 2026 placement results on Wednesday, July 8, 2026.
Cabinet Secretary for Education Julius Ogamba will announce the placement results for students who applied for admission to join universities, colleges and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions.
KUCCPS said placement was conducted in accordance with the Universities Act, 2012, with students assigned based on merit, their preferred course choices, Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) performance and the available capacity in institutions.
“As required by the Universities Act, 2012, placement of students into the institutions will be on merit, considering applicants’ listed priorities, KCSE performance and available capacities,” KUCCPS said.
The placement exercise follows the 2025 KCSE examination, in which about 270,000 candidates attained the minimum university entry grade of C+, qualifying for direct admission to degree programmes.
Students to Know KUCCPS Placement Results on July 8
According to KUCCPS, successful applicants will access their placement results through the placement portal using their KCSE index numbers.
Institutions will then issue admission letters and joining instructions ahead of the new academic year.
According to KUCCPS, 43 public and 31 private universities have declared a combined 322,396-degree slots, enough to accommodate all candidates who qualified for university admission.
On the other hand, TVET institutions have declared capacity for 1,132,531 trainees, while teacher training colleges have room for 2,480 students.
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Course Selection
On May 16, KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer Agnes Mercy Wahome said programmes such as Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Engineering had already been filled during the initial application phase due to high demand and limited available slots.
She noted that the courses were subsequently removed from the portal as no spaces remained for revision applications.
In its update, Wahome stated that 212,510 candidates who scored a C+ and above in the 2025 KCSE examination applied for various programmes since the opening of applications.
This accounted for 79.1 percent of the 268,714 students who attained a mean grade of C+ or above in the national examination.
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How Students Performed in 2025
The 2025 KCSE examination recorded improved performance, with 1,932 candidates attaining the top grade of A, up from the previous year’s results.
The number of candidates who scored C- or above rose to 507,131, up from 476,889 in the 2024 examination.
Performance also improved at the lower grade threshold, with 634,082 candidates attaining D+ and above, up from 605,774 in 2024.
Overall, 993,000 candidates sat the national examination at centres across the country.
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