Influence Of Strategic Collaborations On The Competitiveness Of Private Colleges In Nakuru Town

Collaboration is currently one of the key elements of institutional competitiveness. In the face of continuous world economic changes, competition allows many institutions to improve and accelerate their collaboration processes. Universities as traditional sources of knowledge might be involved in such kind of collaboration. The increasing demand related with education of the population has led to the entry of a large number of private players in the education sector. This has also resulted to the development of competition among the private colleges or private universities for attracting good students as well as high revenue. Private colleges and private universities are also trying to adopt competitive intelligence in their action plan to get recognition as well as value for their college or university. The aim of this study was to establish the Influence of Strategic Collaborations on the Competitiveness of Private Colleges in Nakuru town. More specifically, the study sought to determine the influence of strategic financial allocation, explore the influence of strategic expansion, and assess the influence of strategic alliances on competitiveness of private colleges in Nakuru town. The study was grounded upon the Theory of Evaluation, Resource Based View Theory and the Resource Dependence Theory. This study adopted descriptive design. The target Population of the study consisted of six colleges. The study, being census, was conducted at Nairobi Aviation College, Tec Institute, Nakuru College of health sciences, Tracom College, Kenya Institute of Professional Counseling and Professional Studies and Lake Nakuru Hotel and Tourism Management College. Senior College management heads were targeted. Data collection instruments incorporated questionnaires, mainly structured in a 5-point Likert scale which were distributed to respondents through “drop and pick later” method