University of the West Indies - UWI, Mona Speciality : Medicine And Surgery
programme: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

The programme itself is very disorganized. There’s no formal way of receiving lectures, and materials are often just sent through WhatsApp or Shared Google Drives. Professors frequently don’t show up without any notice, and classes get rescheduled constantly.

At its core, this programme feels like you’re paying for the final exams rather than actually learning anything. If you’re looking for structured teaching and support, you won’t find it here.

The most enjoyable part of the programme is probably the other students you get to meet and the connections you make along the way, but that’s hardly enough to justify the cost.

It is a fairly okay university. There are great programmes and some amazing staff, great campus and lots of activities. There are unfortunately very bad habits re communication especially between the general university administration(student admin services/sas) and faculty administration and other axillary services like the health centre. Very quickly, those communications need to be edged on by the customer rather than there being an already established network for efficient information transfer. Furthermore, As a student you have to do a lot of searching for information on a mostly outdated website that is now seeing an update of any caliber in 8 years. Not exorbitantly expensive but there are always rising costs in tuition eg tuition increased by ~4% during the online period with no actual explanation/reasoning for same.