The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has opened applications for admission to the Open University of Kenya (OUK).
KUCCPS Chief Executive Officer Agnes Wahome said the applications will be free of charge and without any deadline.
She also added that the Bachelor’s degree applicants are eligible for government scholarships and loans as per the new funding model criteria.
The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Elijah Omwenga requested the placement body to list five degree programmes and two postgraduate diploma courses on the student placement application portal.
The undergraduate programmes that will be offered include Bachelor of Data Science, Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, Bachelor of Technology Education, Bachelor of Business and Entrepreneurship and Bachelor of Economics and Statistics.
According to KUCCPS, it will cost Ksh105,000 to study an undergraduate degree course at OUK except for Bachelor of Technology Education, which will cost Ksh115,000 per year for full-time study.
“The annual cost for studying a degree programme has taken into account a 15 per cent discount that the government negotiated with universities under the new higher education funding model,” KUCCPS stated.
The postgraduate programmes will include the flagship Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership and Accountability and the Postgraduate Diploma in Learning Design and Technology.
The cost of pursuing a postgraduate diploma programme is Ksh110,000 for one academic year.
The degree and postgraduate diploma programmes have between 12 and 14 course units per academic year.
“At OUK, learners have the flexibility to pay and pursue individual course units at a cost of Ksh10,000 per unit, an option that is applicable to both the bachelor’s degree and postgraduate diploma programmes on offer,” said KUCCPS.
Learning will take one year for postgraduate programmes while the bachelor’s degree programmes will take four years to complete.
For all the programmes or course units, students outside East Africa will pay 10 per cent more.
The Open University of Kenya (OUK) was chartered on 3rd August 2023 by President William Ruto to benefit Kenyans who missed early opportunities or faced barriers such as formal grades, age, and capacity to pay, gender or geographical location to access university education.
By Thuita Jaswant
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