Chuka University is a Kenyan public university located in Ndagani, Chuka, Tharaka-Nithi County, and was established in 2007 through Legal Notice No. 161 initially as Chuka University College, a Constituent College of Egerton University. The university traces its origins to 2004, when Egerton University proposed expanding into Eastern Kenya and, following the recommendations of a
Chuka University is located in Chuka Town, Tharaka-Nithi County. Its main campus is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Kenya at an altitude of approximately 2,000 meters above sea level. The establishment of Chuka University was foretold way back in 1951 by a famous philanthropist and seer by the name Jerusha Kanyua. She prophesied that an academic mountain