[8] The main campus of Kenyatta University sits on over 1,000 acres (1.6 sq mi), at Kahawa, in the Kasarani Sub-county, north of Nairobi City County, approximately 17.5 kilometres (10.9 mi), by road, northeast of the central business district of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, off of the Nairobi-Thika Road.

[17] Kenyatta University's library is one of the largest in Africa and offers scholarly information resources and services to its students and researchers.

Men's sports include football, rugby, hockey, volleyball, netball, handball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, squash, badminton, chess, scrabble, darts, boxing, bodybuilding, taekwondo, swimming, athletics (track and field), scrabble, karate, roll ball, woodball, judo, wrestling, goalball, baseball, and softball.

fWomen's sports include football, rugby, hockey, volleyball, netball, handball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, squash, badminton, chess, scrabble, darts, boxing, fitness modelling, Taekwondo, swimming, athletics (track and field), Karate, roll ball, woodball, Judo, goalball, baseball, and softball.

The vice chancellor is Professor Paul Wainaina, who was reinstated on November 3, 2022, after being suspended on July 12, 2022, due to a dispute with the government over the university's land.

[23] Wainaina had succeeded Professor Olive Mugenda, the first female vice chancellor of a public university in Kenya, who retired after the end of her tenure in January 2016.