Spartan Health Sciences University

Spartan Health Sciences University was founded on January 7, 1980, in Saint Lucia. The initial campus was in the capital city of Castries. The school was renamed Spartan Health Sciences University and relocated to Vieux Fort in November 1983.

Spartan University began participating in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program under Title IV in 1989. They continued to take part until 1997. These loans were obtained by about two-thirds of their student body. Due to a high default rate and inability to produce appropriate paperwork during the US Department of Education examination of financial assistance at the school, the institution was required to repay several hundred thousand dollars back to the program.

After the St. Lucia government uncomfortably denied knowledge of the school's existence, it was briefly delisted from the World Directory of Medical Schools in 1997. Since then, relations between the government and the institution have improved, and several of their alumni now work in the St. Lucia Ministry of Health. In 2012, the school launched a nursing program, and by 2017, it had graduated two cohorts of St. Lucian nurses.

Spartan's MD program is a ten-trimester course of study with three trimesters per calendar year. trimesters 1-5 are completed at the Saint Lucia campus; semesters 6-10 consist of 80 weeks of a clinical study that are performed at teaching hospitals accredited by the university.

Spartan also offers a nursing school. The nursing program was chartered by the St Lucian government and is licensed by the university. It is also accredited by a Monitoring Committee appointed by the Government of St. Lucia to ensure that standards are comparable to those set by the Liaison Committee of Medical Education as required by the US Department of Education. On January 14, 2015, a veterinary medicine school was founded in conjunction with Techmedics Inc.

Established: 1980

Location: Vieux Fort, Saint Lucia
Website: www.spartanmed.org