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Strathmore Law School (SLS) is one of the constituent schools of Strathmore University, a non-profit private university in Nairobi, Kenya. The school launched on April 28, 2012.

Strathmore University

Strathmore University is a chartered university based in Nairobi, Kenya. Strathmore College was started in 1961, as the first multi-racial, multi-religious Advanced-level Sixth Form College offering science and arts subjects, by a group of professionals who formed a charitable educational trust. Saint Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, inspired and encouraged them to start the College. It is a catholic university. Strathmore has a particularly successful accounting program: 60% of the CPA finalists in Kenya coming from it in the past ten years, dating back from 2007. The current Vice-Chancellor of the University is Professor John Odhiambo.

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