Harvard University to Admit Kenyan Students in Honor of Late Professor Calestous Juma

Equity Bank will from 2018 begin to offer scholarships to Kenyan students to study at Harvard University in the United States.

The Bank announced that under its Wings to Fly scholarship programme, two top performing students in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) will be given full scholarships to study at the ivy league institution.

Equity Group Chief Executive Officer James Mwangi said that Harvard University agreed to the proposal in honour of late Kenyan scholar Professor Calestous Juma, who was a lecturer at the institution until his demise last week.

Mwangi was speaking on Saturday during a meeting held at the bank’s offices in Upper Hill, Nairobi, where nine beneficiaries of the Bank's scholarship programme were unveiled. The nine scored As in the recently released 2017 KCSE exam results.