Kisii University College was founded in 1965
as a Primary Teachers Training College on a 61 acre land that was
donated by the County Council of Gusii. The college continued up to 1983
when it was upgraded to a Secondary Teachers College to offer Diploma
programmes. The Government of Kenya mandated Egerton University to take
over the College as its campus in 1994.
In
1999, the Faculty of Commerce established Bachelor of Business and
Management as its first degree program within the campus to run
alongside Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE), which was phased
out in the year 2001. On 23rd August 2007, Kisii University College was
established through a Government Legal Notice No.163 of 2007 as a
constituent College of Egerton University.