The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service on Tuesday released the placement results for students who sat KCSE in 2023.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said 201,146 (22.5%) students attained a mean grade of C+ and above hence met the minimum requirement for placement to Degree programmes.
Machogu said the remaining 694,086 (77.5%) attained mean grades of between C and E and were eligible for placement to Diploma, Craft and Artisan programmes in TVET institutions.
Before the placement process began, higher institutions of learning declared their available capacity to take in new students.
The CS said the cumulative approved capacities in these institutions was 1,078,806.
This comprised 278,006 available capacities in Universities (Degrees) and 769,820 capacities in TVET colleges and institutes.
