Just three years away from celebrating its golden anniversary of service to Barbados and the eastern Caribbean, the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies has already developed an international reputation befitting a centuries-old institution of higher learning.

Cave Hill is an integral link in a four-campus, 40,000-student network that touches virtually every landmass in the English-speaking Caribbean. The Campus has been able to leverage its capacity, reputation and internationally respected and recognised academic staff to forge academic partnerships and business relationships with the world’s best.

Range of study options
Cave Hill’s dedication to “the pursuit of quality scholarship, intellectual freedom, innovation, civility, personal growth, open mindedness and community service” has produced more than its fair share of national leaders in government, medicine, the arts and industry, to name a few, and heads of some of the world’s most important hemispheric and international bodies.

Cave Hill Campus has established a strong track record in a wide range of traditional and modern undergraduate programmes, including; theology, tourism and hospitality management, ecology, meteorology, medicine and law. Over the past decade the campus has been laying the foundation for an aggressive portfolio of professional, post-graduate and research offerings in conjunction with some of the world’s leading institutions and academics.

Cutting edge
Its Faculty of Medical Sciences was predated by a well respected School of Clinical Medicine and Research, in association with the university’s national Chronic Disease Research Centre (CDRC), and supported by some of the region’s leading clinicians and medical researchers. Cave Hill’s Chronic Disease Research Centre stands at the summit of a national health services network that surpasses any in the developing world and matches most in the developed world.

Cutting edge research in the detection and treatment of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, glaucoma and heart disease, including the development and use of technology far more suited to the conditions and finances of the developing world, is now taking centre stage at Cave Hill. The university is committed to making a difference in the health of millions of people in the developing world.

A second element of Cave Hill’s 21st Century thrust has been in the development of a sports programme that will produce graduates, whose training and qualifications will place them on par with the best graduates of any academic programme of any university across the world.

Sporting excellence
Supported by a multi-million dollar sports facilities development programme that coincides with the upgrade and expansion of teaching facilities to rival the best of any A-rated campus in North America or Europe, students of Sport Cave Hill will operate in a state-of-the-art environment, whether their forte is track and field, cricket, soccer, hockey, volleyball or netball.
Whether a student’s interest is the arts, medicine, sports or any of the other programmes of study on offer at the Cave Hill Campus, those enrolled will operate in a lush, tropical environment where the cooling breezes of the Atlantic and the shimmering turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea are the perfect study partner.

The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, web: www.cavehill.uwi.edu