The University of the Virgin Islands is a liberal arts-based institution with two campuses located on St. Croix and St. Thomas. The English-speaking university offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs through its five colleges.
Accessibility is key at UVI, which has a dedicated division that helps to make some of its degrees available online for remote students, including those from nearby St. John. That’s why the school has partnered with other U.S. schools to create additional opportunities and programs wherein students spend their first three years at UVI before transferring to the partner university to finish up, whether that’s in engineering (a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from UVI and Bachelor of Science in a specialized engineering field from the partner) or medicine (at Boston University Medical School). Recognizing the various paths to a degree is also why UVI runs the Emerging Caribbean Scientist (ECS) program, which creates numerous hands-on opportunities for science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and psychology students, with opportunities to present research projects conducted both locally and abroad. Work involving the Marine & Environmental Science Programs is particularly popular, as one might expect from the setting, with students getting to conduct a practical study of tropical marine life and environmental issues.
