<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.uwi.edu </Td> </Tr> <P> The University of the West Indies (UWI) is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English - speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands . Each of these countries is either a member of the Commonwealth of Nations or a British Overseas Territory . The aim of the university is to help "unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth" in the West Indies, thus allowing for improved regional autonomy . The University was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London . </P> <P> The University consists of three physical campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados . There is also a virtual, online - based, university through the University's Open Campus . The Open Campus is an amalgamation of the University's previous Office of the Board for Non-Campus Countries & Distance Education (BNNCDE), the School of Continuing Studies (SCS), the UWI Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC), and the Tertiary Level Institutions Unit (TLIU). There are satellite campuses in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and Montego Bay, Jamaica, and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas . The other contributing countries are served by the Open Campus which has a physical presence and Heads of Sites in each of the 18 countries . There are International Programmes and partnerships for universities in the USA, Canada, China, Japan, United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico such as University of Toronto, McGill University, Osaka Gakuin University, China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai University, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Emory University, University of Massachusetts, the University of Guelph, Yale University, King's College London, St Andrews University, Northeastern University, Stockholm University, University of California, Sophia University, University of Illinois, Saïd Business School and Universidad de Quintana Roo . </P> <P> The University has produced students who have excelled in a number of disciplines, including the arts and sciences, business, politics, and sports . Notable alumni and faculty include three U.W.I. (Mona) Nobel Laureates, sixty - one Rhodes Scholars, 18 current or former Caribbean Heads of Government, and an Olympic medalist . The university's cricket team previously participated in West Indian domestic cricket, but now participates as part of a Combined Campuses and Colleges team . </P>

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