The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has announced additional admission slots for 29 courses at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC).
In the announcement on Sunday, November 3, the placement service revealed that the application was open on their official website until November 10, giving interested students just one week to complete their applications.
The slots include 9 certificate courses and 21 diploma courses spread across different campuses nationwide.
Opportunities are available for all students with a mean grade of C or C- depending on the course they are applying for.
Some of the courses available include Certificates in Community Health Assistant, Health Records and Information Technology, Medical Emergency Technician, Medical Engineering, Orthopaedic Trauma Medicine, and Public Health which all require a mean grade of C-.
A certificate in Nutrition and Dietetics is also available to those with a mean grade of D+. A diploma for the same course is also available for those with a mean grade of C-.
All the other diploma courses available are for students with a mean of C plain and some of them are available in only one campus.
They include a diploma in Community Health only available in the Mosoriot Campus, Health Promotion only at the Nyahururu Campus, Kenya Registered Nursing at Mathare, Orthopaedic Technology at Port Reitz, and both Mortuary Science and Radiography and Imaging only at the Mombasa campus.
15 others are available in fifteen other county campuses across the nation.
How to apply
Interested applicants have been encouraged to apply through the KUCCPS students portal according to the announcement.
“Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) invites applications for placement in various programmes offered at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) Interested and eligible persons should log into the KUCCPS students Portal (students.kuccps.net) and apply.
The application deadline is November 10, 2024,” the notice read.
In case they run into challenges, they have been advised to call the KUCCPS contact centre through the numbers 0205137400/0723954927 or visit the KUCCPS website at www.kuccps.
