Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
| Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) |
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|---|---|
| founding | 1981 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Juja |
| country | Kenya |
| Students | approx. 37,000 |
| Networks | IAU , PAU |
| Website | www.jkuat.ac.ke |
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) is a university in Kenya . It is located in Juja , 36 km northeast of the capital Nairobi .
The educational institution was started as an intermediate college (Jomo Kenyatta College of Agriculture and Technology, JKCAT) by the Kenyan government with generous support from the Japanese government. Plans to establish JKCAT began in 1977, and in 1978, State Founder Jomo Kenyatta donated two hundred acres of farmland to found the college. Daniel Arap Moi officially opened JKCAT on March 17, 1982. With the name Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology , the college became a university in 1994.
In 2013 the university had 5,560 graduates, and in 2014 it had around 37,000 students on the Juja Campus and others. The focus is on the engineering , natural and agricultural sciences courses .
JKUAT library
Building complex for natural sciences
JKUAT auditorium
JKUAT administration building
Web links
- www.jkuat.ac.ke , JKUAT
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fred Makana: JKUAT to open Eldoret campus next year . In: Standardmedia.co.ke . December 9, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ^ History - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology . In: jkuat.ac.ke . Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ↑ Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) November 1, 1994, p. 498.
- ↑ Graduation Statistics ( Memento of May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, May 27, 2014
Coordinates: 1 ° 5 ′ 42.5 ″ S , 37 ° 0 ′ 52.7 ″ E