Northern Caribbean University

Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is a private, liberal-arts university in Jamaica that is owned and operated by the Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission (ACUM) of Seventh-day Adventists. With its main campus in Manchester, just two miles south of Mandeville town, and three other campuses in Kingston, Montego Bay, and Salem Runaway Bay, St. Ann, the university offers a variety of professional, pre-professional, and vocational programs in a spiritually wholesome and aesthetically pleasing environment. NCU, founded in 1907, now has an average yearly enrollment of over 5,000 students from up to 35 countries. It is part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, which is the world's second largest Christian school system and is the largest English-speaking Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institution in the world.

Northern Caribbean University, formerly known as West Indian Training School, is Jamaica's oldest private tertiary institution. It began in 1907 with only eight students and offered only courses up to the twelfth grade. Following a brief closure in 1913, it reopened in 1919. It was renamed West Indian Training College in 1936. It evolved into a junior college as its offerings expanded to include theology, teacher education, secretarial science, business, and natural sciences. It was elevated to the status of senior college in the late 1950s when it began to offer the bachelor's degree in Theology, and it was renamed West Indies College in 1959. Baccalaureate programs in over twenty other disciplines have been added since then. The Jamaican government granted the college university status in 1999, and it was renamed Northern Caribbean University. The university currently offers graduate and post-graduate programs in the sciences, religion, business, and education.

Country rank: 3

World rank: 7118

Website: www.ncu.edu.jm