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Top A-Level Courses in Kenya for 2024: Unlocking Academic Excellence and Career Success
To get into the best A-level courses in Kenya, you need to do well in the KCSE exams. Public universities prefer students who excelled in high school and aim to admit the brightest ones.
As students who did well in the 2023 KCSE exams plan for the next academic year, they are excited to choose the best undergraduate courses for their future careers.
If you scored an A in the KCSE, your chances of getting into the top universities are high, especially if you did well in the cluster subjects. In 2024, the following A-level courses are popular among high-achieving students:
1. Medicine and Surgery
- Duration: Six years, three semesters at a time.
- Minimum Entry Requirement: A plain in KCSE.
- Acceptance at Various Universities: A plain for the University of Nairobi, A- grade for Kenyatta University, Moi University, or Maseno University.
2. Biomedical Engineering
- Duration: Four years.
- Requirements: B+ in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and English.
3. Civil Engineering
- Duration: Four years.
- Minimum Entry Requirement: A- in KCSE.
- Cluster Subjects: C+ in Math, Physics, Chemistry, and A in Biology or Geography.
4. Aeronautical Engineering
- Duration: Five years.
- Minimum Entry Requirement: C+ in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
5. Architecture
- Minimum Entry Requirement: C+ in Mathematics, A in Physics, Biology, or Chemistry, and C+ in either English or Kiswahili, Geography, History, or Religious Studies.
6. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Minimum Entry Requirement: B-.
- Cluster Subjects: C+ in Mathematics, A in Physics, B+ in Chemistry, and C+ in Biology or Geography.
7. Law
- Duration: At least four years.
- Minimum Entry Requirement: A- in KCSE.
- English Requirement: At least B plain in KCSE English.
- Offered at UoN, KU, Strathmore, and JKUAT.
8. Computer Science
- Offered at JKUAT, UoN, KU, and Egerton.
- Prerequisites: B+ in Mathematics, A in Physics, and B+ in English.
9. Pharmacy
- Duration: Five years.
- Prerequisites: A- in Chemistry and Biology, B- in Math or Physics, and B- in English or Kiswahili.
