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ABOUT MOI UNIVERSITY
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Moi University is located in Eldoret, 310 kilometres northwest of Nairobi, the Capital City of Kenya. It was established as the second university in Kenya by an Act of Parliament, the Moi University Act of 1984. The first cohort of 83 students was admitted in 1984 through a transfer from the Department of Forestry, University of Nairobi. Since then, the University has experienced phenomenal growth from its initial one faculty in 1984, to a total of fifteen (15) Schools and five (5) Directorates in 2009. The University currently operates three (3) campuses, namely: Main, Town, and Eldoret West Campus. The university has three (3) constituent colleges, (Kabianga, Chepkoilel and Narok) and eight (8) Satellite Campuses, (Nairobi, Kitale, Kericho, Southern Nyanza, Central Kenya, Odera Akang'o, Coast and Northern Kenya campus).
The rural setting and scenery of Moi University provides an excellent quiet atmosphere for intellectual activity and recreation in the growing Western Kenya tourist circuit. The University is situated near Eldoret town, which is a rapidly growing industrial town and a gateway to central Africa. This atmosphere enhances interaction between researchers and the rural community and promotes cost-effective implementation of outreach programmes for sustainable development, such as health education and intervention, Legal Aid Clinics and Fish farming.
To be the University of choice in nurturing innovation and talent in science, technology and development.
To preserve, create, and disseminate knowledge, conserve and develop scientific, technological and cultural heritage through quality teaching and research; to create conducive work and learning environment; and to work with stakeholders for the betterment of society.
Moi University is committed to providing quality education and services that meet the needs of its customers and stakeholders through quality and relevant teaching, research and community service and outreach. The University is committed to a quality work and learning environment that is grounded in intellectual and academic freedom, teamwork, quest for excellence, professionalism, discipline and continuous improvement of its products (programmes/activities) and services so as to achieve client/customer satisfaction. To be able to realise this commitment, the University will continually review its products (programmes/activities) and services to conform to the Quality Management Systems based on the ISO 9001 - 2008 Standards.
The total student enrolment now stands at 22,364 out of whom 19,429 are undergraduates. The students are registered in 297 programmes consisting of 90 for undergraduate, 134 Master of Philosophy, 61 Doctor of Philosophy and 12 Postgraduate diploma programmes. The number of students is envisaged to increase to 42,000 by 2014/15, taking into account the current annual student growth rate of approximately 16% per year cumulatively in all categories of Government sponsored, Privately Sponsored and student population growth at the satellite campuses. The figure could still go higher with the inception of the Open and Distance learning programmes.
There are a total of over 3,662 staff all levels of whom 934 are academic staff
The University has modern teaching facilities that support academic programmes: Margaret Thatcher Library, the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Seed Testing Laboratory and Water Resource Engineering Laboratory and the Fish Farm.
Moi University is a body corporate established by an Act of Parliament, in Moi University Act, 1984. For its effective management it has various bodies
THE VICE CHANCELLOR
MOI UNIVERSITY P.O. Box 3900 Eldoret, Kenya Tel: +254-(0)53-43620 / 43001-8 Fax: +254-(0)53-43074 Email: vcmu@mu.ac.ke |
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