The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has launched a late application window for degree programmes, targeting thousands of KCSE candidates from 2022 to 2025 who qualified for university admission.Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba directed KUCCPS to act after 57,681 students with C+ and above in KCSE 2025 missed university placements.The initiative aims to address administrative gaps and ensure eligible learners don't get excluded from higher education.Students who sat KCSE in 2022-2025 with C+ grades can apply via the KUCCPS portal.The move follows a directive after the 2026/2027 placement results revealed 202,133 students secured placements out of 268,729 qualified.KUCCPS also opened a 30-day transfer window for students seeking preferred programmes.Over 322,000 degree slots are available across public and private universities, with 1.1 million training slots in TVET institutions.Medicine remains the most competitive course, with over 6,500 applicants vying for 702 slots.Kenyatta University admitted the most students among public universities, while education programmes accounted for 40% of selections.