St. George's University

Founded as an independent School of Medicine in 1976, St. George’s University has evolved into a top center of international education, drawing students and faculty from 140 countries to the island of Grenada, in the West Indies. Students attending St. George’s enjoy the benefits of a thriving multicultural environment on the True Blue campus, offering all the amenities and technologically-advanced facilities of a world-class institution. The University’s over 14,000 graduates include physicians, veterinarians, scientists, and public health and business professionals across the world. The University offers medical, and veterinary degrees in the schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, and independent and dual graduate degrees in the sciences, public health, and business. Undergraduate degree programs are also available through its School of Arts and Sciences. The University programs are accredited and approved by many governing authorities. St. George’s is affiliated with educational institutions worldwide, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland. As one of the leading education centers in the Caribbean, St. George's University has been an active and vital member of the community. St. George’s contributes over US $100,000,000 annually into the Grenadian economy in the form of salaries, hotel accommodations, housing, recreation, food, construction, goods and services, advertising expenditures, and charitable contributions. The staff, faculty, students and visitors, all the activities associated with living and doing and buying n Grenada, added to the direct contributions of the University and has bolstered the economy. The research programs of St. George’s on-campus affiliate, the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF), have improved personal and public health as well as areas of the economy, in Grenada and the Caribbean. The University contributes to the purchase of hospital equipment and general welfare each year and provides salary supports for its educational programs at the hospital. The University employs over 600 Grenadians, with that number increasing as new professionals are brought on staff for the School of Arts and Sciences. The University community is involved in many community outreach programs, running fundraisers for local charities, ecological programs, education programs, health fairs, and other activities that benefit our neighbors. The University has sponsored and underwritten numerous programs in the social services arena, including charities such as Orphans and Elderly Fund, Bel Air Home for Abused Kids and the Grenada Heart Foundation, which has facilitated heart surgeries free of charge for over 200 children and adults in Grenada. The students organize health fairs around the Island every semester, <a href=''https://www.dissertationcorp.co.uk/''>dissertation help</a> to identify health problems for hundreds of Grenadians, and the annual reception for Orphans and Elderly Fund continues to raise money and awareness for the cause. Above all, St. George's University continues to play an important role in producing outstanding doctors, striving to improve healthcare systems regionally and globally, and promoting the highest goals of the medical profession. Since 2005, the University has granted over US $70 million in scholarships to Caribbean students, many of them Grenadian, and they have gone on to study medicine, veterinary medicine, business, public health, and nursing, among others.

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