How government funding gap is killing university education

A graduation ceremony. FILE PHOTO | NMG

There is a huge gap between the money the government allocates universities per student and the amount it actually costs to successfully take one through training.

On average, the the cost of education in Kenyan universities for one academic year per student ranges from Sh600,000 for the dentistry programme, Sh576,000 for medicine, Sh432,000 for pharmacy, Sh180,000 for applied humanities, to Sh144,000 for the arts.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.