University Of Eldoret Departments, University of Eldoret is one of the 22 public universities in Kenya 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. From 1990, the University made it a campus of Natural, Basic and Applied Science programmes.
Schools/Faculties and Departments
The university has the following schools;
- Agriculture and Biotechnology
- Business and Management Sciences
- Education
- Engineering
- Environmental Studies
- Environmental Studies – Arts
- Environmental Studies – Science
- Human Resource Development
- Natural Resource Management
- Science
- Economics
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)