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Motto | Flame of Knowledge and Innovation |
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Type | Public |
Established | Founded in 1956 by the white settlers as a Large Scale Farmers Training Centre. |
Endowment | 20,300 |
Chancellor | Prof. Judith Mbula Bahemuka |
Vice-Chancellor | Prof. Thomas Kimeli Cheruiyot |
Undergraduates | 25,000+ |
Postgraduates | 8,000+ |
Location | , |
Campus | Urban, Town Campus, |
Website | www.uoeld.ac.ke |
University of Eldoret is one of the 22 public universities in Kenya [1] and situated approximately 9 km along the Eldoret-Ziwa road in Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu County. It was founded in 1946 by the white settlers as a Large Scale Farmers Training Centre. In 1984, it was converted to a teachers’ training college and renamed Moi Teachers’ Training College to offer Diploma Science Teachers Training. Due to the double intake crisis, the college was taken over by Moi University as a campus in 1990, renaming it Chepkoilel Campus. [2] From 1990, the university made it a campus of Natural, Basic and Applied Science programmes.
In August 2010, President Mwai Kibaki, through Legal Notice No. 125 of 13 August 2010 upgraded the campus into a University College with the name Chepkoilel University College, a Constituent College of Moi University. [3] Upon the award of charter by the president in March 2013, the University College was renamed University of Eldoret. [4]
The university has the following schools;
The University on Friday 7 February 2013 added its first campus in Eldoret town-Town campus-Housing School of Environmental studies Human Resource Business and management sciences Education (Arts)
"Status of Universities. Universities Authorized to Operate in Kenya, 2013". Commission for University Education. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.