The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service data shows that the 68 public and private institutions admitted 122,831 students against available space for 145,129.

This is, however, an improvement from the previous year when the institutions were left with 55,852 unfilled places.

Of the 689,007 candidates who sat the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination in 2019, 125,463 scored C+ — the minimum entry grade to university — and above.

The Education minister announced on Friday that the decision to reopen learning institutions will be made after scrutiny of Covid-19 pandemic data from the Ministry of Health.