Technical University Of Kenya Departments, the Technical University of Kenya shares history with the development of the first three higher education institutions in East Africa. In the 1920s there were heightened agitations for the expansion of access to higher education by indigenous leaders in the East African Territories. Concerted efforts in the form of committees, commissions and conferences resulted in positive developments that included the elevation of Makerere Institute of to Makerere University College of the University of London in 1949, proposal to establish the Royal Technical College of East Africa (RTCEA) in Nairobi was approved and construction started on 25th January 1952 and establishment of Dar es Salaam University College in 1961.
The University is comprised of Ten schools organized under three colleges namely;
- Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Technology
- School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering(link is external)
- School of Architecture and the Built Environment(link is external)
- School of Infrastructure and Resource Engineering(link is external)
- School of Mechanical and Process Engineering(link is external)
- School of Surveying and Geospatial Sciences(link is external)
- Centre for Engineering Innovation and Production(link is external)
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology
- School of Business and Management Studies(link is external)
- School of Creative Arts and Technologies(link is external)
- School of Hospitality and Tourism Studies(link is external)
- School of Information and Communication Studies(link is external)
- School of Social and Development Studies(link is external)
- Centre for Creative and Cultural Industries(link is external)
- Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology.
- School of Biological and Life Sciences(link is external)
- School of Physical Sciences and Technology(link is external)
- School of Computing and Information Technologies(link is external)
- School of Health Sciences and Technology(link is external)
- School of Mathematics and Statistics(link is external)
- Centre for Science and Technology Studies