UWI Global Campus

The University of the West Indies, Open Campus serves the following English-speaking Caribbean countries:

The University began teaching in 1948 at Mona in Jamaica as a University College affiliated with the University of London, and became independent in 1962.  The University is now a dual mode institution offering teaching by distance education as well as face-to-face teaching.  The University has campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St Augustine in Trinidad and Cave Hill in Barbados, and University Centres in most of the above countries.  The UWI on campus student population is currently over 30,000 full-time equivalent students. 

In a major initiative to grow our student population and service the widely dispersed needs of country partners, the University launched the Open Campus; an entity that is built on our success in distance education and continuing studies throughout the Caribbean.  The current population of our distance students and continuing education students is over 20,000 and the Open Campus is aggressively developing new programmes to increase student enrollment.  Open Campus currently employs a wide variety of distance delivery methods and has 52 education centres in 16 different English speaking countries and a staff of almost 400 professionals to support our growing student population. 

The UWI Open Campus works with faculty on the three campuses, as well as with other tertiary institutions and development agencies throughout the Caribbean to design, develop and deliver quality programmes by distance to meet the academic and professional development needs of the people of the Caribbean.