This post shows 101 ways to make money in university or campus in Kenya.
Although the main goal of a student is to study and curve a bright future for themselves, with tuition fees and living costs on the rise in recent years in Kenya, most parents and guardians are unable to keep up, so the Kenyan students are forced to look for alternative ways to make money legally in Kenya.
As a result, an overwhelming majority of Kenyan students struggle to make ends meet.
The little money their parents give them is not enough to pay school fees, cover rent, buy food, print out assignments, etc.
To survive therefore, the students have to find plan B through ways to make money in Kenya legally.
If you are looking for legal business ideas to make money as a student in Kenya, then you’re in the right place.
Word of caution.
Don’t skimp on school in favor of making money in university campus Kenya!
What's Covered in This Article
Tutor your fellow students
Are you good in a certain topic, subject or course?
Then you can make money in campus as an undergraduate student in Kenya tutoring your fellow students or even coaching high school or primary school kids.
Design websites
This is one of the best ways to make money in university as a student in Kenya.
As long as you have a computer, a stable internet connection, and some basic graphic and web design skills, you could very easily make money make money in Kenya as a student.
A good place to find customers from is freelancing platforms such as Fiverr, Upwork, and the like.
Do freelance work
This is one of the most common ways of how to make money in campus online for a Kenyan student.
The best thing about freelance work is that there is a myriad of stuff you can do on a freelance basis and get paid for.
A simple search for freelance jobs will give you a feel of the options that are well paying.
You can also look at what you’re currently doing in school.
Start off your search for freelance jobs in freelancing on platforms such as Fiverr, Upwork, Reddit r/ForHire, indeed, LinkedIn, etc.
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Become a brand ambassador
Another easy way to earn money in university Kenya as a student is by becoming a brand ambassador.
As a brand ambassador, you’re basically paid to represent other companies.
If you’re wondering whether you can actually make money in Kenya as a brand ambassador, this is what Dion (Akothee’s daughter) is doing as Brand Ambassador for Nivea.
Seth Gor, also a student at Strathmore University is also paid as a brand ambassador for Brookside.
Sell handmade stuff on Etsy
As a student in Kenya, you can make money in campus selling traditional African Maasai jewelry on Etsy.
Personally, I believe its one the easiest legal ways of making money quickly as a student when you’re running low on cash.
In case you get stuck, you can contact me for details of how to get started.
Volunteer for research
Another easy way to make money as a student in university Kenya is by volunteering for research.
Every now and again, your university will be looking for people to participate in paid research.
The best places to look for these opportunities is through the university billboards as well as your student e-mail address.
Deliver Takeaways with Uber Eats
Are you a student in Kenya?
Do you own a motorbike aka ndudhi aka bodaboda?
Well, you can make money as a student in Kenya by delivering with Uber Eats.
UberEATS is an on-demand food delivery service in Kenya. Once customers select and buy food from local restaurants, as an UberEATS rider of driver, you will get an alert on your app (as long as you’re logged in as working), then you pick up the food from the restaurant and deliver it the food to the customer who ordered.
You get to work on your own terms.
Log into the UberEATS app when you’re ready to work, log out when you’d rather be doing something else.
Sign up here and start making money today!
Distribute Flyers
If you don’t mind braving the Kenya rain or sunshine, then you could be on your way to making money as a Kenyan student distributing flyers for pay.
Start your own blog
All of the above ways for students in Kenya to make money in campus revolve around trading your time for money.
What if I told you that as a Kenyan student you can also make money as you sleep? This is what is popularly know as passive income.
But to start a blog, you must have a website.
Starting a blog is one of THE EASIEST and FASTEST way to make money as you sleep.
Is there a concept or topic that you have in depth knowledge about? At least more knowledge on than the average guy on the street?
Or is there a challenge that you successfully solved?
Well, you could make money writing about these topics by starting a blog.
Starting a blog with Bluehost takes about 15 minutes, and will cost you barely anything compared to the potential revenue you will earn.
At the onset when you’re still building an audience of course it will take a lot of time and work to put the content together. But once you have all this in place, it gets a lot easier and will require a little less of your time. And once you start getting decent traffic to your website, you can then focus on monetizing it.
And there are tons of ways you can monetize your blog.
In my experience, the only way to build a successful blog is by either blogging about a topic or an issue that has never been blogged about before, or blogging about an issue better than the existing bloggers are currently doing it.
To get foot traffic to your website quickly, you can also consider participating in an unusual but legal activity and blog about your adventure. Who knows, some major print publication or TV station might stumble on your story and feature you.
For instance, next year, I turn 40. And I plan to celebrate my birthday every month on my birthdate, for a year.
EvaMtalii is just one example of a successful blog website that I started slightly over a year ago.
Design and sell merchandise
Another way to make money as a campus university college student in Kenya is by designing T-Shirts, mugs, bags, etc and selling them online.
The beauty about this method of making money online in KEnya is that you don’t have to just focus on picture designs for your T-Shirts.
You can also funny memes or phrases that your target market can identify with.
Some popular sites to sell and design T-Shirts on include Merch by Amazon, Zazzle and Cafepress.
To start selling T-shirts on these platforms, simply create your product, upload your T-Shirt designs, and when customers purchase your product, the companies will take care of the production, shipping, and customer service on your behalf.
Sweet, right?
Get paid queuing for others
As a student in Kenya, you can make money queuing so someone else doesn’t have to.
I would start my search from Nyayo House where the queue to apply for a Kenyan passport could take eternity. Especially in light of the new Kenya East African Passport changes.
Turn your class notes into cash
Just like in normal non-student life, there is always that one person who’d rather have their money work for them than sit in a classroom listening to a lecture.
You can make money buy selling your class notes.
There are two ways of going about this:
- Write out your notes nicely, or type them out and sell them to your class mates. The main advantage of this method is that you get to keep 100% of all the revenue.
- Alternatively, you could consider uploading your notes on platforms such as Stuvia or Notesale, and then when another student downloads your notes, you get a cut of the price you set.
Enter competitions
Buy and sell domain names
Good luck with your quest to make money as a student in Kenya.
Do let us know how it all turns out with your great idea!
In case we missed out on any business ideas for student in Kenya, fill us in on the comments below.
