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EnglishWhich faculties, departments, and research institutes are listed on the University of Nairobi website?
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The University of Nairobi website (uonbi.ac.ke) lists ten faculties, each with its own departments, plus a separate group of research institutes and centres. Use the faculty list to confirm which unit covers your field, then go to that faculty's department list to find the specific programme or office. The site organizes these as browsable lists rather than a single searchable directory, so the faculty name is the fastest entry point.
Faculties listed on the site
| Faculty | Example departments shown |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | Agricultural Economics; Food Science, Nutrition & Technology; Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology; Plant Science & Crop Protection |
| Built Environment | Art and Design; Architecture; Real Estate, Construction Management & Quantity Surveying; Urban and Regional Planning |
| Business & Management Sciences | Business Administration; Finance and Accounting; Management Science and Project Planning |
| Education | Educational Management, Policy and Curriculum Studies; Educational Communication and Pedagogical Studies; Physical Education and Sport; Educational Foundations; Educational and Distance Studies |
| Law | Listed as a faculty without department breakdown in the excerpt |
| Engineering | Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering; Civil and Construction Engineering; Electrical and Information Engineering; Environmental and Biosystems Engineering; Geospatial and Space Technology |
| Arts and Social Sciences | Economics and Development Studies; Diplomacy and International Studies; Journalism and Mass Communication; Psychology; Political Science and Public Administration; Sociology, Social Work and African Women Studies; and others |
| Health Sciences | Dental Sciences; Nursing Sciences; Public and Global Health; Surgery; Human Anatomy & Physiology; Clinical Medicine & Therapeutics; Paediatrics and Child Health; Obstetrics & Gynecology; Pharmacy; and others |
| Science & Technology | Chemistry; Computing and Informatics; Mathematics; Physics; Biology; Earth & Climate Science; Biochemistry |
| Veterinary Medicine | Public Health, Pharmacology & Toxicology; Veterinary Anatomy & Physiology; Animal Production; Clinical Studies; Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology & Parasitology |
The Arts and Social Sciences faculty is the broadest in the excerpt, covering humanities, social sciences, languages, and media. Health Sciences is similarly large and splits clinical, nursing, dental, pharmacy, and public health units.
Research institutes and centres
The site groups these separately from teaching faculties:
- Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies
- Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology
- Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation
- Kenya Aids Vaccine Institute
- Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies
- Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies
- Institute of Tropical & Infectious Diseases
- East African Kidney Institute
- Population Studies and Research Institute
- Institute for Development Studies
How to use this to find your unit
- Identify the field, e.g. "climate adaptation" or "project planning."
- Match it to a faculty first: project planning sits under Business & Management Sciences; climate work has both a faculty home (Earth & Climate Science) and an institute (Climate Change and Adaptation).
- Open the faculty page and scan its department list for the exact name.
- If the topic is research-led rather than degree-led, check the institutes list before the faculties.
A common snag: some names appear in more than one place. Diplomacy and International Studies is both a department under Arts and Social Sciences and a standalone institute, and anthropology and gender studies appear in both lists too. When that happens, the faculty page is usually the teaching/programme route and the institute page the research route.