Egerton University is a public university in Njoro, Kenya, founded in 1939.
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Egerton University is a public university in Njoro, Nakuru County, Kenya. It was founded in 1939 as Egerton Farm School on land donated by Lord Maurice Egerton, making it the oldest institution of higher learning in Kenya, and it became a full university in 1987.
Egerton is known for agriculture and related sciences, with faculties of agriculture, veterinary medicine and surgery, environment and resources development, engineering and technology, science, education and community studies, arts and social sciences, health sciences, commerce and law. A town campus operates in Nakuru.
Teaching is in English. Kenyan students are placed through the national KUCCPS system.
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Egerton University was founded in 1939.
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