The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has announced the reopening of the online application portal for the Kenya Medical and Training College (KMTC) applicants.

The portal was first opened on January 24 before it was closed on February 14, 2025. The new application window seeks to fill 21 KMTC courses that still have slots for the March 2025 intake.

Interested applicants, including those who missed slots in the previous application, have until March 4, 2025 to submit their online application via KUCCPS portal https://students.kuccps.net

“KUCCPS has reopened the online application portal to fill vacancies in 21 KMTC courses for the March 2025 intake. The portal will remain open until March 4, 2025,” KUCCPS announced.

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“All applicants who were not successful in the last application and others who would like to join KMTC in March 2025 are invited to apply,” it added.

The reopening of the portal comes at a time when the placement service is yet to open its portal for university course applications.

Speaking on Friday, February 21, KUCCPS CEO Agnes Wahome attributed the delay to the move back to the old university funding model.

This is after a High Court ruling on December 20th, which declared the new university funding model illegal and unconstitutional.

According to Wahome, the judgment delivered on December 20 by Justice Chacha Mwita lacked clarity on how to handle students, including those already pursuing various courses. As a result, KUCCPS delayed placement to prevent a financial crisis.

“The judgment that was delivered by Honorable Justice Chacha Mwita did not give a direction on how to treat even the students that we had placed in the two years and direction moving forward when he said it was unconstitutional,” she stated.

“Looking at where we have come from, we were trying to avert the funding crisis in the Higher education institutions,” she added.