Chuka University

About Chuka University

Chuka University, the largest and most diverse university in Eastern Kenya, provides high-quality and affordable university programs which are attractable worldwide and has the needed infrastructure to facilitate the training of very competent and disciplined students. The University integrates theory and practical learning and inculcates core human values and personality development to ensure that academic excellence is achieved.

Chuka University brings together students and staff from different communities and cultures thus enabling them to mingle and enrich their diverse experiences, values, and social outlooks enabling them to appreciate one another and learn to build a united nation. The students are exposed to global culture, ethics, standards, and international social, economic, and political outlook which broaden their world view in resolving problems. This in turn helps to promote national peace and reconciliation.

The establishment of Chuka University has brought together students and staff from all parts of the country with different cultures. It is one of the largest, and most diverse university in Eastern Kenya with over 16,000 students.

Apart from specialty courses, Chuka University students are taught core courses and participate in extra curricula activities that promote peace-building and reconciliation. Peaceful co-existence among our students is a demonstration of how humankind should live on earth.

Why study at Chuka University

Chuka University sits in a very cool, pleasant, serene, and conducive environment for personal, spiritual, and academic growth which makes it a home for the world?s top specialists, researchers, and scholars.

The vision of Chuka University is to be a premier University for the provision of quality education, training, and research for sustainable national and global development. Our vision underpins our deep interest to serve humanity faithfully. The core values that guide the University?s activities are a passion for excellence and devotion to duty, integrity, transparency and accountability, social fairness, professionalism, timeliness, prudent use of resources, corporate citizenship, customer focus, teamwork, and confidentiality. The University draws its inspiration from the goodwill of its stakeholders.

Philosophy: Quality education, training, research, extension, environmental sustainability, and entrepreneurship lead to social cohesion, human integrity, and economic development

Mission: To provide access, generate, preserve and share knowledge for quality, effective and ethical leadership in higher education, training, research, and outreach through nurturing an intellectual culture that integrates theory with practice, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Vision: A Premier University for the provision of quality education, training, and research for the sustainable national and global development

Career Office

Chuka University has an established career office whose purpose is to bridge the skill gap, help students develop soft skills, and generally create an opportunity for interactions and networking between students and employers for a smooth transition from learning to earning.

The Career Office's mission is to support the vision of Chuka University by empowering students to make the right career choices through Academic Advising, Career Counselling, and Linkages. 

The aim of Chuka University is to develop holistic graduates equipped with soft and practical skills for the job market.

Objectives of the career office

• To conduct career counseling on individual students that walk into our office seeking the same.
• To create awareness and educate students on the trends in Careers and the nature of the workforce during orientation.
• To network with Chuka University Alumni and hold at least one career fair every year.
• To keep up with the current market demands including CV writing skills, job market skills by training at least once per semester in different departments by inviting resource persons from industries or corporate world.
• To create awareness on entrepreneurship opportunities and encourage students to embrace entrepreneurial opportunities through incubation forums at least once per year.
• To train at least 26 career ambassadors every year.
• To evaluate and assess the information on the graduate tracker system at least once per year.

Services offered by the Chuka University career office

• Academic Advising
• Career Services
• Counseling Services
• The linkage between Industries and Students
• High School Recruitment
• Intra-Institutional Exchanges
• Apprenticeship Services
• Establishing an Alumni Network
• Creating an Entrepreneurial Incubator
• Recruiting and Training Student Career Ambassadors
• Recruitment Career Fairs
• Venture Capital Fairs

Chuka University - Historical journey

Chuka University was the first institution of higher learning to be established in the former Eastern Province. The government?s objective of establishing the institution was to enhance education access and equity to the people in the region and Kenya at large.

The establishment of Chuka University was foretold way back in 1951 by a famous philanthropist and seer by the name Jerusha Kanyua. She prophesied that an academic mountain shall sprout at Ndagani. She advised the youth to take a pen-like spear and a book like a shield.

In 2004, the Egerton University Senate elected Prof. Erastus Njoka to chair a technical committee that was to among other things, explore the possibility of putting up a campus in the eastern part of the country. After several consultative meetings with education stakeholders in Eastern Province and Mount Kenya region, the Njoka Committee recommended to the University Senate to open a campus at Chuka due to its central location, a decision that was ratified by the Egerton University Council on 17th September 2004

Between September 2004 and August 2005, Egerton University embarked on the renovation of structures within the Ndagani educational complex in readiness for the opening of Egerton University Eastern Campus College (EUECC).

Chuka University College was established through a Legal Notice No. 161 of 2007 as a Constituent College of Egerton University and the successor of the former Egerton University Eastern Campus College.

The college was officially opened on August 1, 2005, and the then Egerton University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ezra Maritim appointed Prof. Njoka as the Director of the new campus college. The Campus College was established on 27th September 2004 by Egerton University Council in order to enhance access to high quality and affordable university education to the people of the Eastern region and Kenya at large.