About the college

Thika Institute of Business Studies (TIBS) opened in Thika town in October 2003 with four courses. Today it offers 76 courses in eleven faculties and schools, from six-month artisan courses to three-year professional programmes.

Students come from all 47 counties. They study full time, part time or by correspondence, and they join in January, April, July or October.

Two campuses

• Highway Campus, on the Thika Super Highway between Thika town and Witeithie, opposite the Jomoko matatu stage. Room for over 4,000 students, with laboratories, workshops, a media studio, a salon and a training restaurant.
• Thika Town Campus, in Thika town.

Registration

TIBS is registered by the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority under TVETA/TVC/0244/2016 (Highway Campus) and TVETA/TVC/0087/2018 (Thika Town Campus).

Examining bodies

Courses lead to the examinations of KNEC, KASNEB, TVET CDACC, NITA, the Institute of Commercial Management (UK), ABMA (UK), City & Guilds (UK), the Computer Society of Kenya and, for the driving school, NTSA.