About
Open University of Kenya
Learn about the mission, leadership, and institutional history of the Open University of Kenya.
Flexibility
This allows students to customize their learning experience to fit their unique needs and commitments. With the freedom to choose courses, students set their own pace.
Openness
Through open admission policies, affordable tuition options, and online or distance learning programs, open universities strive to remove barriers to education and promote lifelong learning.
Inclusivity
Diversity is celebrated, and efforts are made to ensure that all students, faculty, and staff have access to resources, support services, and accommodations to enable their success.
Certification
OUK Offers specialised training, Diploma courses, Undergraduate programmes, Masters programmes, and PhDs in the following schools
Our mission
To provide affordable, flexible and equitable quality learning experiences that empower learners with knowledge, skills and values to become innovative researchers, leaders, entrepreneurs and global citizens
Our vision
Innovative University for Inclusive Prosperity.
Empowering
the
Next generation.
Welcome to the Open University of Kenya — a University where learning is not confined by walls, distance or time. OUK is founded on the conviction that access to quality higher education should not be determined by where a person lives, when they can study or the circumstances in which they find themselves. We are building a University for a changing world; one that uses technology, innovation and flexible learning to create new pathways to knowledge, skills and opportunity.
Institutional leadership
Explore the structures that steward academic quality and public accountability.
2023
Year chartered
24/7
Learning access
100%
Digital admissions
47
Counties reached
Core values
The open advantage
Why learners choose OUK
Flexible learning
Study around work and family with digital-first delivery.
National mandate
Chartered to expand access to quality higher education across Kenya.