Northern
Caribbean University is a Seventh-day Adventist,
English-speaking University. It is located on a
two-hundred acre property two miles south of the town of
Mandeville, in Manchester, Jamaica. It is owned and
operated by the Jamaica Union
Conference and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists. The University is a private,
four-year, co-educational, liberal-arts institution,
offering a number of professional, pre-professional and
vocational programmes and is the only multi-disciplinary
tertiary institution serving rural Jamaica. Its
enrolment averages over 5000 students from over 34 countries.
HISTORICAL STATEMENT
Founded in 1907, Northern Caribbean University (formerly
West Indies College) is the oldest private tertiary
institution in Jamaica. Formerly known as West Indian
Training College, it began by offering courses up to the
twelfth grade. As its offerings developed to include
theology, teaching, secretarial science, business, and
natural sciences, it became a junior college. It
achieved senior college status in the late 1950's when
it began to offer the Bachelor's Degree in Theology.
Since then, baccalaureate programmes in some twenty
other disciplines have been added. The college was
granted university status in 1999 by the Jamaican
Government. Presently the university offers several
graduate programs in the sciences, business and
education.
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