UWI MONA IN KINGSTON JAMAICA

The University began at Mona, Kingston Jamaica, in 1948 as a College of the University of London. It achieved full university status in 1962. The Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad was converted into the St. Augustine Campus in 1961 and in 1963; a third campus was established at Cave Hill in Barbados.

There is also a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in the Bahamas. Kingston Jamaica University Centers in the non-campus countries ensure that a wide cross section of the population has access to a variety of educational resources and services and there is also an innovative distance education facility.

The UWI Kingston Jamaica is the region’s premier educational institution. Its faculties offer a wide range of undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs in Humanities and Education, Pure and Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, Engineering, Law, Medical Sciences and Social Sciences. There is a strong emphasis on Jamaican issues making the UWI Kingston Jamaica the ideal educational institution for local and international students with an interest in Jamaican society.

UWI Kingston Jamaica's mission is to unlock West Indian potential for economic and cultural growth by high quality teaching and research aimed at meeting critical regional needs, by providing West Indian society with an active intellectual centre and by linking the West Indian community with distinguished centers of research and teaching in Jamaica and overseas.

UWI Kingston Jamaica recognizes that as a regional university supported by the West Indian peoples, and as the sole local organ equipped to meet local requirements and to relate its own developmental programs to them, it should give priority to regional needs. There are several other Universities in Kingston Jamaica, such as the Manchester Business School, The University of Technology previously known as CAST, the University of Phoenix.