When was mku founded?

Vision

To provide excellent Historical Studies with a vibrant curriculum on par with the European Universities.

To prepare the students to develop a flexible yet rigorous, scientific enquiry into fundamental questions that concern the historical imagination.

Dedicate to reframing and rethinking the interconnections between time, memory and history.

To enable the teachers, combine a rich variety of methodologies and disciplinary backgrounds to bear on their research and teaching of history.

To mould and train the students to teach, or engage in advanced training in history, law, or other fields.

To ensure that students leave our program with a firm education in the liberal arts and have excellent communication and critical thinking skills.

Renowned Historians of the School

Prof. K.V. Raman

Prof. Y. Suburayalu

Prof. H. Hanumanthan

Prof.R.Venkataraman

Prof.S.Manickam

Prof.G.Thangavelu

Prof.P.P.Chellathurai

Prof.D.Daniel

The precursor of Mount Kenya university, the then Thika Institute of Technology was inaugurated in 1996 and was the first middle level college to be approved to offer diploma in pharmacy

Mount Kenya university was given a Letter of Interim Authority as a University in 2008 and was granted full charter in the year 2011 by the President of Kenya H.E Mwai Kibaki.

Mount Kenya university was the first private university to launch an undergraduate programme in pharmacy and also in clinical medicine both of which have undergone full cycle.

It is through the lesson learnt in these pioneer programmes in health sciences and the audit of the available supporting academic resources, the management deemed it fit to start the MB.Ch.B program.

Medical School Legislation

Description Mount Kenya University is a private, multi-campus, university in the municipal town of Thika, Kenya. The university was founded by Prof. Simon N. Gicharu and has since become one of the largest private universities in Kenya, with an estimated 52,000 students, as of September 2015. Wikipedia