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American University of Antigua (AUA) College of Medicine [1] [2] Metropolitan University College of Medicine (MUCM) [3] University of Health Sciences Antigua (UHSA) [1] [4] University of the West Indies at Five Islands [5] [6]
Agriculture has been an important industry in Antigua and Barbuda since it was colonised in the 1600s. Today, less than five per cent of the population works in agriculture, [1] and agriculture only contributes to 2.1% of the GDP. The primary crops exported by Antigua and Barbuda are bananas, coconuts, and other tropical fruits and vegetables.
List of universities in Antigua and Barbuda; U. University of the West Indies at Five Islands This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 02:32 (UTC). Text ...
St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [3] [4] 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 ...
In an effort to make the University more attractive, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda said it will be offering scholarships to students from across six countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). [11] Unlike the other landed campuses of the UWI, which have faculties, the Five Islands campus is composed of three schools:
Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Khairahani Agriculture Campus, Chitwan Mahendra Ratna Multiple Campus, Ilam (IAAS/Tribhuvan University), B.Sc. Horticulture [ 55 ] Gokuleshwor Agriculture & Animal Science College (GAASC), Baitadi [ 56 ]
Antigua and Barbuda became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations on 1 November 1981. [3] The island's perimeter is roughly 87 km (54 mi) and its area 281 km 2 (108 sq mi). Its population was 83,191 (at the 2011 Census). [4] The economy is mainly reliant on tourism, with the agricultural sector serving the domestic market.
The government of Antigua and Barbuda contributes financially to the UWI. The island of Antigua currently has three foreign-owned for-profit offshore medical schools : the University of Health Sciences Antigua (UHSA), [ 8 ] founded in 1982; the American University of Antigua (AUA), [ 9 ] founded in 2004; and the Metropolitan University College ...