Government opens portal for loans, bursaries and scholarships for 2025 KCSE cohort

Government opens portal for loans, bursaries and scholarships for 2025 KCSE cohort
Government opens portal for loans, bursaries and scholarships for 2025 KCSE cohort - The Higher Education Loans Board has opened loan and scholarship applications for university, TVET students, with the deadline set for August 31. (Photo: File/HELB)
The Higher Education Loans Board has opened loan and scholarship applications for university, TVET students, with the deadline set for August 31. (Photo: File/HELB)

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Students can access the HEF Portal through hef.co.ke or universitiesfund.go.ke and follow the step-by-step application process to apply for scholarships, loans and bursaries.

First-time applicants joining universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions can now apply for government funding after the opening of the 2026/2027 Higher Education Financing (HEF) portal for loans, bursaries and scholarships.
According to the Universities Fund (UF), the application period will run for 60 days, allowing students placed in universities and TVET institutions to submit their funding requests.
“The 2026/2027 Higher Education Funding portal is now open for first-time loan, bursary and scholarship applications for both undergraduate and TVET students. Applicants are required to have an official admission letter from the university or TVET institution where they were placed before applying for funding,” UF said.

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Students can access the HEF Portal through hef.co.ke or universitiesfund.go.ke and follow the step-by-step application process to apply for scholarships, loans and bursaries.
The opening of the portal comes after thousands of students who sat the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination received their placement details from the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) on Wednesday.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba said a total of 293,869 students had been placed in universities and colleges.

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He said the centralised placement system introduced by the government in 2014 through KUCCPS had recorded major growth over the years.
Ogamba noted that KUCCPS placed 72,338 students during its first placement exercise in June 2014, compared to the 293,869 students placed in the current cycle.
He emphasised that the placement results have allowed successful applicants to begin preparations for admission into institutions of higher learning from September.
According to KUCCPS, the placement exercise was carried out in line with the Universities Act, 2012, with students assigned to institutions based on merit, their preferred courses, KCSE performance and the available capacity declared by institutions.
The placement agency said no student is placed randomly, adding that the automated system considers three main factors: examination performance, applicants’ preferred courses and institutional capacity.
Candidates who did not meet the required cut-off points for their first-choice programmes were automatically considered for other choices they had submitted during the application process.

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