Thousands of 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates attempting to revise their university courses selections have been left frustrated after discovering that some of the country’s most competitive programs have vanished from the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) portal.
KUCCPS explained that the system automatically removes a program once all its available slots are taken, preventing students from selecting courses that no longer have any remaining capacity. The affected programs are Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Engineering, disciplines that traditionally attract the highest number of applicants nationwide.
“Some degree programmes such as Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Engineering, among others, were filled in the first application due to high demand as compared to available spaces in the programmes. Hence, they have been removed from the portal,” KUCCPS stated.
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The removal follows the closure of the first application phase on May 6, 2026, during which demand for those programmes far outstripped the number of available government-sponsored slots at public universities.
The shortage has extended to the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) as well, where Nursing, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy programmes were similarly pulled from the platform after overwhelming demand exhausted available spaces.
“We encourage students who applied for these programmes but missed them due to competition to apply for available programmes,” KUCCPS added.
Students who are yet to revise their choices have three days left to do so, as the revision window closes on May 22, 2026.
By Benedict Aoya
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