THE University College of the Caribbean (UCC) is pleased to add to its slate of accredited programmes, the executive Master’s in Business Administration and the Executive Master’s in Public Administration.

The announcement came recently in a release from the Ministry of Education in its current listing of locally accredited programmes.

This brings the total number of accredited undergraduate and graduate degree programmes at UCC to eight.

The newly accredited programmes were introduced in 2008 when UCC in association with the Commonwealth of Learning began the delivery of these two innovative management education graduate degree programmes.

They offer students a flexible, cost-effective and quality academic experience. Since then, 77 persons, inclusive of executives and managers from a wide cross section of industries, entrepreneurs and public sector administrators or professionals, have graduated from the programmes. Currently, 133 are students are enrolled in the programmes, with 27 of that number slated to graduate in UCC’s annual commencement this year.

The programmes are designed to accommodate the professional demands and constraints of busy executives, managers, technical persons and administrators while ensuring that they are exposed to high-quality, leading-edge instruction and facilitation. The accreditation of the programmes affirms the quality of the internal processes.

UCC is known for emphasising flexibility, quality and affordability in all its processes and programme offerings; given these emphases the institution has assisted many Jamaicans and Caribbean nationals in advancing personally and professionally in their own time and at their own pace.

Upon receiving the formal news of the programmes’ accreditation, UCC president Winston Adams remarked: “Once again, UCC has shown its commitment to offer viable options to those wishing to pursue tertiary education. The accreditation is in indeed a clear indication of the high level of quality in the programmes at UCC that can be accessed by those wishing to make themselves more viable in an increasingly competitive world of work.”

UCC was formed in 2004 and was the first university college to have obtained registration through the UCJ. UCC has 12 locations throughout Jamaica, six in other islands in the Caribbean and offers a range of diplomas, graduate and undergraduate degree programmes.