Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) may be a public university close to capital of Kenya, Kenya. it's located in Juja, thirty six kilometres northeast of capital of Kenya, on the Nairobi-Thika SuperHighway. It offers courses in Technology, Engineering, Science, design and Building sciences. The university encompasses a robust analysis interest within the areas of biotechnology and engineering.

History

The university was started in 1981 as Jomo Kenyatta school of Agriculture and Technology (JKCAT), a inferior school by the govt. of Republic of Kenya with the help from the japanese government. Plans for the institution of JKCAT started in 1977. In early 1978, the Kenyan president, Jomo Kenyatta, given two hundred hectares of farmland for the institution of the faculty. the primary cluster of scholars were admitted on four could 1981. The new president Daniel Arap Moi formally opened JKUAT on seventeen March 1982.

The first graduation ceremony was command in Apr 1984 with sheepskin certificates given to graduates in agricultural engineering, food technology and farming. On one Gregorian calendar month 1988, Moi, declared JKUAT a constituent school of Kenyatta University through a legal notice, beneath the Kenyatta University Act (CAP 210C). The name of JKUAT formally modified to Jomo Kenyatta University school of Agriculture and Technology (JKUCAT). it had been finally established as a university through the JKUAT Act, 1994 and inaugurated on seven Dec 1994.