Data from the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has revealed a number of courses offered in tertiary institutions that students are uninterested in pursuing.
The recent admissions raised questions on state resources being used to sustain academic programmes with extremely few students.
Agribusiness management and Hotel and Restaurant Management, which had a total capacity of 130 students, attracted zero.
3 other programmes with a total capacity of 260 students attracted between 1 to 5.
Several institutions also failed to hit even half of their declared capacities.
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The worst hit was Turkana University College which had only 4 students expressing interest in studying there despite having a declared capacity of 320 in 5 academic programmes.
3 were selected to study for Bachelor of Education while the other was chosen to study social work.
This leaves 3 other programmes; Bachelor of Business Management, Bachelor of Environmental Science, and Bachelor of Development Studies with no interested students.
The Cooperative University of Africa declared 1,840 available slots but only had 806 students placed in various programmes.
Rongo University declared a capacity of 2,315 in 36 programmes but had 459 students placed, leaving 1,856 empty slots.
The overall report indicates that nearly half of all public universities were unable to fill 50 percent of the declared slots, bringing into question the viability of several institutions.
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