Relationship between economic status of students and inter-university transfers among private universities in Nairobi County, Kenya

Abstract

This paper aims to establish the relationship between students’ economic status and mobility in private universities in Nairobi County, Kenya. A descriptive survey design was employed to accomplish this objective by targeting 26 registered private universities (including private university constituents where mobility rate records are too high) in Nairobi County, Kenya. A sample of 180 private university students and nine registrars was obtained using a multi-stage sampling technique at three different stages. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22.0 was used in analysing the collected data, from which descriptive statistics such as mean scores, percentages, standard deviation, and linear regression were computed. This study found that economic status does not influence student mobility in private universities in Nairobi County, Kenya. This study recommends the involvement of government agencies, including the Ministry of Education (MOE), Kenya Universities and Colleges Placement Service (KUCCPS), Commission for University Education (CUE), and Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), to figure out the origin of this mobility and effectively control the alarming student mobility cases.