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JKUAT University Overview.

JKUAT University is located on Thika road, about 40 km from the Nairobi city center. One will normally take matatu number 237 to get to the university. The VC is Prof. Marbel Imbugha while the chancellor is Prof. Francis Gichaga. The University is located in Juja town. In actual fact, Juja town, a hitherto mini town about a decade ago, has been transformed rapidly, with new buildings coming up everywhere. The buildings are mainly hostels that are meant to house the parallel degree/self sponsored students.


JKUAT began as a technical college in 1983/84, funded by the Japanese government through JICA. It received University accreditation in 1994. The Japanese agency handed the University over to the Kenyan government in 2001. As a result of this, the University still maintains strong links with Japan, with many members of its staff having been trained in Japan. In addition, the University has had a strong reputation in the sciences, agriculture, technology and engineering. However, this may not be the case as the University has of late diversified into business and social sciences courses. This is partly as a result of the University having had to rely on income from the self sponsored/ parallel degree students. The JKUAT main campus is in Juja. It also has the JKUAT Karen campus, JKUAT Nairobi center campus, JKUAT Mombasa polytechnic campus, Taita Taveta campus, among other campuses.

According to the webometrics January 2011 ranking of universities globally, it was ranked among the top 100 universities in Africa. Webometrics usually ranks Universities based on their web presence and hence it is favorable to Universities that have many electronic scholarly journals.

JKUAT Job vacancies.
Many Job vacancies in JKUAT are advertised through the media in leading newspapers in the country. However, teaching assistants and tutorial fellows are usually taken from the best and brightest graduating pool of undergraduates.

JKUAT Courses.
Previously, the University offered courses in agriculture/Food science, science, Computer Science, engineering and technology. However, it has expanded and now offers business and social science courses.
The JKUAT results for exams of any academic year or semester can be obtained online from the University website. The website also includes JKUAT contacts.

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