New accreditation of engineering in universities in Kenya has left out numerous programs after the country’s professional engineers’ body said their degrees don’t meet the requirements for graduates to qualify as professional engineers.
The Engineers Board of Kenya has approved only 25 undergraduate engineering programs offered at public and private universities. Those in 17 others, with an estimated 1,000 engineering undergraduates, were not accredited, even though they were approved by the government agency that regulates university education in the East African country.