Kenyatta University's semester is back on a fixed track, and the dates that matter now run from this week to February.

Fee payments fall due on Friday, 13 November 2026. Units registration and adjustment closes a week later, on Friday, 20 November. The 60th Graduation Ceremony is set for Friday, 11 December, and end-of-semester examinations run through January 2027.

It has been a month of stops and restarts to get here. University lecturers went on strike on 2 October 2026. The strike was called off on the evening of Friday, 30 October, after a KSh 20 billion Collective Bargaining Agreement deal. Lecturers had asked Parliament to lock in the KSh 20 billion CBA money, with MPs warning of another strike without Treasury backing.

The following day, 31 October, the Registrar (Academic) issued an internal memo directing all students to resume studies on Monday, 2 November 2026, without fail. Classes resumed that Monday. The memo was signed by Prof. Perez Onono-Okelo, the Acting Registrar (Academic).

A week later, on 9 November, the university's full first-semester calendar for August 2026 to January 2027 was published, mapping the rest of the semester. Campus Pulse reported the full calendar on Monday, including the calendar itself: https://campuspulse.co.ke/story/kenyatta-university-sets-60th-graduation-for-friday-11-decem-y4glkj

The dates ahead are:

1. Friday, 13 November 2026 — Deadline for fee payments.

2. Monday, 16 November to Friday, 11 December 2026 — Student-course evaluation for all students.

3. Friday, 20 November 2026 — Deadline for units registration and adjustment for all students.

4. Saturday, 21 to Friday, 27 November 2026 — Culture Week Festivals.

5. Monday, 30 November 2026 — Commencement of provisional units registration for the second semester 2026/2027.

6. Monday, 30 November to Friday, 4 December 2026 — Second CATs for all students.

7. Friday, 11 December 2026 — Deadline for provisional units registration for the second semester, and the Graduation Ceremony.

8. Friday, 18 December 2026 — End of lectures for all students.

9. Monday, 21 December 2026 to Sunday, 3 January 2027 — Christmas break.

10. Monday, 4 to Friday, 15 January 2027 — Examination period for Engineering, Architecture and BSc (F, N&D) students.

11. Monday, 11 to Friday, 22 January 2027 — Examination period for all other regular students, including first-year MLS, BScN and MBChB/BPHARM students.

12. Friday, 5 February 2027 — Deadline for receiving requests for incompletes and special examinations.

Graduation is the first big date after the resumption. Gown collection for the 60th graduation runs from 3 to 8 December, and a mandatory rehearsal for all graduands is set for Wednesday, 9 December at the Graduation Square.

The semester that lost October to the strike now has its finish line in sight: lectures end on 18 December, examinations close on 22 January, and the last administrative date on the calendar falls on 5 February.