At only 28 years, Purity Ngina has made history as the youngest Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduate at the recent graduation ceremony that took place at Strathmore University.
She is the last born in a family of two, born in a small village in Kieni East, Nyeri County called Mbiriri. Purity was brought up by a single mother who unfortunately passed on in 2017.
Dr. Ngina is also an Alumna of Egerton University where she studied a Bachelor of Education Degree Mathematics and Chemistry between 2009 and 2013.
She got lucky to win a scholarship after graduating with a first class of 75 points.
She immediately enrolled for a Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics in Egerton University between 2013 and 2015 after which She graduated at only 25 years old.
German government and the National Research Fund awarded her a scholarship for her PhD at Strathmore University where she enrolled for her studies in 2016.
Her PhD thesis was titled “Mathematical modeling of in-vivo HIV optimal therapy and management”.
She is currently lecturing Calculus to students pursuing Actuarial Science, Financial Engineering, and Financial Economics at the Strathmore University.
The young academician’s success is an example of a young life that fought against all odds to achieve what she wanted.
That she scored only 235 marks when she sat for her first Kenya Certificate of Primary Education to becoming a Doctor of Philosophy at 28 years is a testimony of what hard work can do.
She repeated her KCPE exam and scored 369 out of the possible 500 marks to join Tumutumu Girls High school in Nyeri County.