Out of the 173,000 students who qualified for direct university admission from 2022 KCSE exams, only 45,000 from struggling households will attain full government scholarships during their study at public universities.
This implies that the remaining students will have to raise their fees by themselves even as the government has announced a new university funding model.
Fee details published by Kenya Universities and Collages Central Placement Services (KUCCPS) in May 2023 reveal that first year students will pay up to Ksh600, 000 annually for a degree programme in public universities according to the new funding model.
Students joining private universities will be locked out of government scholarships.
Fee projections across universities offering Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery point at it being the most expensive course.
Kenyatta, Moi and Maseno universities will charge a whooping Ksh612, 000. Uzima and Methodist University will charge Ksh592, 500 and Ksh 559, 500 respectively.
University of Nairobi will charge Ksh539, 750 while Mount Kenya University will charge Ksh510, 000.
Kisii University will charge Ksh461, 210 while Egerton University will charge Ksh337, 940.
The 45,000 beneficiaries of government scholarship will only pay 7 per cent of the total cost of the course they are pursuing as the government will pay 53 per cent and loans will cater for 40 per cent of the total cost.
By Vostine Ratemo
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