The trend today in Universities is emphasizing reputation and key performance indicators including ranking of universities as the population at large, goes for education in this technology driven orientation. New trends of education are directing towards this change and Vice Chancellors and Presidents of the universities strive hard to realize such aspirations. To fulfill such purposes universities need to transform and issues involving transformation and shift sphere around leadership .This paper analyzed the significance of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership in public universities in Kenya. A survey was carried out in four public universities in Kenya using a questionnaire. Stratified random sampling was used to collect data from all cadres of staff obtained both quantitative and qualitative data. The results showed that emotional intelligence is significant in transformational leadership.