of the Caribbean's workforce has an advanced education
(World Bank, 2020)
UWI ranked in top 1.5 per cent of universities in the world
25 Sep 2021
The University of the West Indies (UWI) now stands in the top 1.5 per cent of universities in the world, up from three per cent in the prior year.
The UWI revealed today that the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking system results for 2022, released in early September, show that The UWI moved up 94 places.
This result places The UWI alongside the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany.
It also locates The UWI in the elite band of BRICS universities in Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa with 3.2 billion people compared to the 6.2 million in the English-speaking Caribbean.
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