Murang'a University of Technology (MUT) is the successor of Murang'a University College (MRUC), a former constituent college of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) after being elevated from Murang'a College of Technology (MCT). The university is located 1.5 km from Murang'a town in Muranga County, 85 km northeast of Nairobi, 70 km southeast of Nyeri and 50 km southwest of Embu.
MUT offers masters, degree, diploma, certificate, and craft courses in engineering, information technology, computing, business, commerce, human resource management, hospitality management, tourism management, pure and applied sciences.
Murang'a University of Technology is the former MurangâÂÂa University College (MRUC) which was established in September 2011 via MurangâÂÂa University College order legal notice No. 129 of September 2011 as a constituent college of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. MRUC is the successor of MurangâÂÂa College of Technology. The university college currently operates under the provision of the Universities Act 2012 CAP 210 B of the laws of Kenya. The first MurangâÂÂa University Council was inaugurated in October 2013