UCC News & Updates

UCC 4^TH ANNUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2020

KINGSTON, JAMAICA: SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) and its Research Committee of the Academic Affairs Division will be hosting its 4^th Annual Research Conference on September 23-24, 2020. The event will be held in the UCC Lecture Theatre located at the Knowledge and Innovation Centre of the UCC’s main campus; 17 Worthington Avenue, Kingston 5.

 UCC & CXC Sign New Historic Articulation Agreement

UCC Appoints Former Governor General as New Chancellor; PS in the OPM as New Board of Directors Chair

UCC Achieves UCJ Institutional Accreditation!

KINGSTON, Jamaica: July 12, 2020 --The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC), Jamaica’s largest private non-affiliated tertiary institution, which was registered as a University College by the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ) in 2007, has recently been granted Institutional Accreditation. This coveted and highly sought-after status makes the UCC, which was formally established just fifteen years ago, as one of only four higher education institutions in Jamaica currently, of the eighty that have been registered with the UCJ, to have obtained such accreditation, to date, joining the University of the West Indies (UWI), the University of Technology (UTECH), and the Northern Caribbean University (NCU). 

UCC Online Student Enrolment more than Doubles this Summer

(KINGSTON, Jamaica: Friday, 29 May 2020) The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean is seeing an unprecedented approximate 230% increase in course registrations for the Summer 2020 semester, since switching to 100% online modality, compared to their Summer 2019 enrolment numbers.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The UCC moved all classes online as of Sunday, March 15, 2020, which has continued for their Summer 2020 programs which begun earlier this week.