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receive.  The campus currently enjoys a full seven-year accreditation from the Barbados Accreditation Council.</p></div><div class="col-md-6 col-feature mb-4"><h5><strong>Open and Available to all</strong></h5><p>We believe that the high-quality university education, research and services available at our institution should be open and available to all people who wish to reach their full potential inside and outside of the Caribbean region.</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-6 col-feature mb-4"><h5>A Green Campus</h5><p>The UWI is increasingly modelling eco-friendly sustainable practices in its policy, operations and research.</p></div><div class="col-md-6 col-feature mb-4"><h5>Highly-qualified staff</h5><p>Our faculty consists of highly qualified tutors, lecturers and researchers drawn from local, regional and international backgrounds and diverse disciplines.</p></div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-6 col-feature mb-4"><h5>Relevant to the region</h5><p>There is a strong emphasis on locating issues within a Caribbean contexts, and devising programmes that address national and regional challenges, making The UWI Global Campus the ideal educational institution for the region.</p></div><div class="col-md-6 col-feature mb-4"><h5>Campus Life</h5><p>Notwithstanding the online nature of the campus, there is unparalleled campus life zealously preserved by the campus community of which sports and the Student Guild are just two outstanding examples. </p></div></div></div></div></div></section><section id="bythenumbers"><div class="container"><div class="row text-left align-items-start mb-3"><div class="col-12 mb-3 mt-2"><h2 class="text-center mb-4">Our campus by the numbers</h2></div><div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4 mb-5"><h3>16,523</h3><h5>Total enrolment (2020)</h5></div><div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4 pt-4 pt-sm-0 pt-md-0"><h3>16,266</h3><h5>Total graduates (2020)</h5></div><div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 m-lg-0 col-lg-4 pt-5 pt-lg-0 pt-sm-0 pt-md-0"><h3>1:15</h3><h5>Teacher-to-student ratio</h5></div></div><div class="row text-left align-items-start"><div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4 mb-5 pt-sm-0 pt-md-0"><h3>67%</h3><h5>Percentage of teaching staff with PhD or higher</h5></div><div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4 pt-4 pt-md-0 pt-sm-0"><h3>16</h3><h5>Physical Presence in 16 Countries Across the Caribbean</h5></div><div class="col-12 col-sm-6 col-md-4 m-lg-0 col-lg-4 pt-5 pt-lg-0 pt-sm-0 pt-md-0"><h3>176</h3><h5>Number of research projects (2020)</h5></div></div></div></section><section class="mt-0 align-items-top d-flex" id="withintheregion"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="mt-5 mb-0 pb-0 col-12 text-center"><h3 class="h2 mb-4">Within the region, The UWI Global Campus is simultaneously a virtual campus with 42 physical site locations serving 17 English-speaking Caribbean countries.</h3><h4 class="mb-4">The UWI: One institution, five campuses <br>The UWI 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