Maseno University, Kenya

Maseno University is committed to quality through teaching, research and development; providing timely services to foster and develop academic excellence in basic and applied research at all levels of study by training practice oriented manpower, who can contribute effectively to social, intellectual and academic development. The University is committed to communicating exhaustively with its customers, and internally with its employees, to continually improve its services, products, processes, methods, and work environment to ensure each customer is receiving the highest quality service or product at the committed cost and on time.

In order to realise this commitment the University Management will monitor and review its quality performance from time to time through implementation of an effective quality management system based on ISO 9001:2008 standard.

Maseno became a full-fledged University in 2001, eleven years after its establishment as a Constituent College of Moi University. After 10 years of existence as a full-fledged University Maseno now boasts of a number of well-conceived faculties, schools and academic departments offering a variety of degrees and diplomas in the Arts, and Social Sciences as well as the Biological and Physical Sciences.

Maseno University’s motto is, “Fountain of Excellence.” It has been a reservoir of knowledge since its establishment as a Constituent College of Moi University. It is arguably the only institution of higher learning around the world that is situated astride the Equator.

The sprawling twin main campuses of the university, referred to as College Campus and Siriba Campus, are situated adjacent to each other on opposite sides of the road around 25 kilometres from Kisumu City along the main highway to Busia and on to Uganda. They are located among the picturesque rocky hills and lush green valleys of an area known as Maseno, close to the shores of Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world after Lake Superior.

A third campus - City Campus - is located in the Central Business District of Kisumu City. Bondo University College (former Bondo Teachers Training College) became a Constituent College of Maseno University in December 2008.

As one of the fastest growing public academic institutions in Kenya, Maseno University has recently established a learning centre at Homa Bay County known as Homa Bay Town Learning Centre. It is based at SONYACO Plaza.

The University offers market-driven academic and professional programmes that include the latest in Information Technology and Computer Applications. Technological, structural, and methodological innovativeness is at the core of all academic programmes at the University.

It is worth noting that all degree programmes at Maseno University have the component of IT (Information Technology). This is to keep pace with current trends in the world where IT skills are indispensable in the job market. It therefore does not matter whether one is taking Physics or Eco-tourism, Hotel and Institution Management or History at Maseno University, the programmes are all with IT component. This has advantaged Maseno University graduates a great deal when they seek employment in all sectors.

The Faculties and Schools at the University currently include the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences; the Faculty of Education; the Faculty of Science; the School of Environment and Earth Sciences; the School of Public Health and Community Development; the School of Development and Strategic Studies; the School of Medicine and the School of Graduate Studies.

Maseno University is the only public academic institution that does not carry out two separate programmes for regular (or government sponsored) and the so-called “parallel” (or self-sponsored) students as they are known in other Kenyan public universities. Both categories of students attend the same classes under the same academic staff. The University simply refers to the self-sponsored as “direct intake” students.

One of the most imposing recent additions to the fast expanding Maseno University is the elevation of Bondo Teachers Training College to Bondo University College as a Constituent College of Maseno University. This was announced by His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki, during the 8th Graduation Ceremony in December 2008. Bondo University College is 70 Kilometers from Kisumu City along the Kisumu- Bondo Highway.

Kisumu City Campus, situated at the very centre of the lakeside metropolis, has an impressive 14-storey structure that Maseno University recently acquired. The City Campus also houses the Maseno Information Technology Centre (MITC) which offers a wide variety of Information Technology (IT) and Computer courses. The MITC is the largest and most sophisticated IT and computer centre in Kisumu City at the moment. It attracts a large number of full-time and part-time students.

The Homa Bay Town Learning Centre is another milestone achievement by Maseno University. The Centre is strategically located at SONYACO Building in Homa Bay Town, 66 Kilometers from Kisumu City.

Maseno University boasts of ownership and management a tourist class hotel, the Kisumu Hotel (Maseno University), within the Lakeside City. It has excellent accommodation and conference facilities capable of hosting up to 120 guests. The modern conference complex, just behind the hotel, offers a number of meeting halls and equipment that can host several meetings and conferences simultaneously. The Conference Complex can hold up to 600 conference delegates.