Kibabii University has been closed and all academic programmes indefinitely suspended following riots during student election campaigns.
Chancellor Ipar Odeo said the university senate made the decision based on a report on the process leading up to the elections set for Friday.
"After considering the disruption of lectures by groups of campaigning students, the senate has resolved to suspend all academic programmes until further notice," Odeo said.
He ordered the institution's closure in a letter that followed a special meeting of the university's senate on Monday.
The letter noted that students were asked to leave the university.
The students demonstrated on Tuesday evening, claiming the university's management was harassing them and interfering with the elections by endorsing a chairman candidate.
They said a student named Tony Barasa was endorsed unanimously leading to riots by his rival's supporters.
"We cannot allow the school management to impose a leader on us. We will select a leader of our own who will represent our interests without being influenced," one student said.
The riots saw chanting students barricade
Kanduyi- Chwele road and set tyres on fire paralysing transport.
Police officers fired in the air and lobbed teargas canisters to disperse them.
Bungoma commissioner Mohamed Maalim said that the county security committee had received the names of several students suspected to have been behind the chaos.
He said police launched investigations and will ensure culprits are punished.