By Vostine Ratemo
As last year`s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education candidate are set to undertake various undergraduate courses offered by the universities both public and private, the students who managed to score Grade C+ (Plus) and above will be selecting courses based on their cluster points.
So far, Kenya Universities and Collages Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) have listed a total of 560 undergraduate degree programmes all classified into 20 clusters.
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) which sits at cluster 1 is the most applied course, that is according to the KUCCPS portal.
Business, Hospitality and related courses come second after Bachelors of Law.
In Cluster 3, KUCCPS lists Social Sciences, Media Studies and Fine Arts, Film, Animations, Graphics and related courses.
Geosciences and related courses which consist of sixteen undergraduate programs sit in Cluster 4. At the same time, Engineering, Engineering Technology and related courses are ranked in Cluster 5.
In Cluster 6, KUCCPS lists Architecture, Building Construction and related courses.
The other clusters include; Computing and Information Technology, Agribusiness, Actuarial Science, Accountancy, Mathematics, Economics and Statistics, Interior and Fashion Design, Sports Science, History and Archaelogy, Agriculture, Geography, French and German, Music, Education and Religious Studies.
Medicine and health- related courses were in demand but on the website, it is in Cluster 13.
Cluster points are a KCSE examination students’ computed performance in four subjects required for admission to a given degree programmes against that of the best candidates in the particular KCSE examinations.
