Students who applied for placement under the Kenya Universities and Colleges Placement Service (KUCCPS) shunned up to 122 degree and academic programmes.
According to a report that appeared in a local daily, 18 degree courses attracted just one student per course while another 104 academic programmes attracted about ten students per programme.
KUCCPS placed one student in Bachelor of Science degree in Food Security, Horticulture, Soil Science, Forestry, Dryland Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Geophysics and Mineralogy, Aquaculture and Fisheries technology, Environmental Chemistry.
Bachelor of Science in Climate Change and Sustainable Development will only admit seven students. Bachelor of Science in Fisheries and Aquaculture programme attracted only eight students while Bachelor of Arts in Counseling attracted five students.
Bachelor of Arts in Theology attracted seven students. Bachelor of Engineering (Manufacturing, Industrial and Textile Engineering) got 16 students.
Bachelor of Science in Zoology got two students, while Bachelor of Science in Geology got seven students.
Instrumentation and Control Engineering got seven students while Bachelor of Arts in Leadership and Management got five students. Bacherlor of Arts in Bibilical Studies got three students while Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Technology got four students.
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Other programmes that also recorded poor interest from students include Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.
Bachelor of Science Networks and Communication Systems, Bachelor of Industrial Technology, Water Resource and Environmental Management, Environmental Resource Management, Library and Knowledge Management, and Bachelor of Arts Chaplaincy.
The number of students taking these courses might thin out even further if the placed students opt not to take them. Already, students have been complaining that they were placed by KUCCPS in courses they aren’t interested in.
In one shocking incident, a student from Pangani Girls High School who had scored a mean grade of A- (minus) was placed at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology for a Diploma in Nutrition.
