Founded in 1948 as Central Training School (CTS) to serve as East African Post Training School before changing to Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (KPTC).This was after the collapse of the East African community in 1977. In 1992, the college was upgraded to Kenya College of Communications Technology (KCCT)under KPTC and became a subsidiary of Telkom Kenya Ltd (TKL) after KPTC split into Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), Telkom Kenya Ltd and Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). The college became a subsidiary of CCK after the privatization of TKL in 2006. In 2008, it was upgraded to Multimedia University College of Kenya as a constituent college of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.The university has 2 campuses. The main campus - near the western side of the Nairobi National Park.The second campus is along Haile Selassie Avenue.It's popular for offering thorough and job-market worthy students in ICT and mass media esp. applied communication.