University of the West Indies - UWI, Mona (reviews)

The university I attend is known to produce well-rounded individuals in their various career paths chosen. Lecturing is effective and efficient; any misunderstanding of a concept is easily cleared by the lecturers. The clinical rotations are an awesome experience. This is where you get the hands-on experience of what was taught in theory and to know that you’ve made a change in someone’s life, is so heart-warming.

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 Furthermore, As a student you have to do a lot of searching for information on a mostly outdated website that is now seeing an update of any caliber in 8 years.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.

UWI, Mona is a wonderful institution but some things can be improve so that students can have a better experience. The administration, for example, is very hard to reach via phone so people always have to go to its office to get issues sorted out which may be tedious.

If I had known what I was in for before applying to this university, I would have taken my money and gone somewhere else. The school puts on a front of being prestigious and the university of choice in Jamaica. However, once you’re there, you’ll notice the level of disorganization and total disregard for the best interests of its students. Totally ruined my university experience.