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Maseno
Kisumu County, Kenya · Africa
About Maseno
Maseno sits on the route: 5 minutes from Luanda.
Maseno is in Kisumu County, Kenya, with about 6,800 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Luanda, about 4 km away.
Maseno University is a public university based in the Maseno district of the Kisumu County, Kenya, along the Equator. It was fully fledged as a university in 2001, after being a constituent college of Moi University for a decade. It has over 10,000 students pursuing programmes offered in the university campuses and itRead more
is currently ranked among the best universities in Kenya.
The main campus located in Maseno Township along Kisumu-Busia road, 25 km from Kisumu City and 400 km northwest of Nairobi. Apart from the main campus, it has other four satellite campuses in Nairobi, Kisumu, Homa Bay, and an online campus known as the eCampus.
The university has 12 schools and an institute offering various degrees, diplomas and certificates.
It has a student Organisation abbreviated [SOMU] -Student Organisation of Maseno University[-A name given to the organisation by the then king maker in students politics of Maseno Ogal sirkal[ogal Alexstone Erick] after students participation.The king Maker ensured students welfare was a priority of the admission and this earned him a recognition by naming one of the roads after him within the University despite opposition from Former President Fred Makajos, Wilingtone Raps and other notable political figures.
The eCampus, the first of its kind in Kenya, is a virtual campus that runs flexible online programmes both for on-campus students as well as off-campus students enrolled in various Maseno University programmes through eLearning.
The name 'Maseno' was coined by Rev. J.J. Willis from the name of a tree known in local dialects as "Oseno" or "Oluseno" that stood next to the spot where the first missionaries in the region erected their base.
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Maseno is in Kisumu County, Kenya, about 4 km from Luanda.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,771
- Continent
- Africa
- Country
- Kenya
- Region
- Kisumu County
- Timezone
- Africa/Nairobi
- Coordinates
- -0.0066, 34.6000
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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