University of the West Indies, Mona: Statistics

Quick Review

Enrollment

49,092

Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private
partnership

Highest Degree

Doctorate

Website

mona.uwi.edu

Acceptance rate

57%*

* The University of the West Indies, Mona is among the institutions that don't provide data on acceptance rates. This might happen because a university has programs where an applicant only needs to meet admission requirements to enroll and doesn't necessarily competes with others.

We estimate the above acceptance rate based on admission statistics of closely-ranked nearby universities with similar research profiles that do publish such data.

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Publications & Citations

Publications

16,724

Citations

397,053

University of the West Indies, Mona majors

by publication & citation count

Annual publication & citation counts

Tuition

The University of the West Indies, Mona has financial aid programs and on-campus housing.

Programs and Degrees

University of the West Indies, Mona alumni

1. Derek Walcott

   

   Years

   1930-2017 (aged 87)

   Occupations

   poetplaywrightwriterauthorprosaist

   Biography

   Sir Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem Omeros (1990), which many critics view "as Walcott's major achievement." In addition to winning the Nobel Prize, Walcott received many literary awards over the course of his career, including an Obie Award in 1971 for his play Dream on Monkey Mountain, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, the Queen's Medal for Poetry, the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for his book of poetry White Egrets and the Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award in 2015.

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2. Andrew Holness

   

   Born in

   Jamaica

   Years

   1972-.. (age 50)

   Occupations

   politician

   Biography

   Andrew Michael Holness, is a Jamaican politician who has been the Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 2016 Jamaican general election. Holness previously served as prime minister from October 2011 to 5 January 2012. He succeeded Bruce Golding as prime minister, and decided to go to the polls in the 29 December 2011 general election in an attempt to get his own mandate from the Jamaican electorate. He failed in that bid, however, losing to the People's National Party led by Portia Simpson-Miller, with the PNP gaining 42 seats to the Jamaica Labour Party's 21. Following that defeat, Holness served as Leader of the Opposition from January 2012 to March 2016, when he once again assumed the position of prime minister. In 2020, The Labour Party won a landslide in another general election, and on 7 September Holness was sworn in for another term as prime minister.

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3. Imran Nazar Hosein

   

   Born in

   Trinidad and Tobago

   Years

   1942-.. (age 80)

   Occupations

   philosopherschool teacherwriterIslamic scholar

   Biography

   Imran Nazar Hosein is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian Islamic scholar, author and philosopher, who specializes in Islamic eschatology, world politics, economics, and modern socio-economic/political issues. He is the author of Jerusalem in the Qur'an and other books.

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4. Marlon James

   

   Born in

   Jamaica

   Years

   1970-.. (age 52)

   Occupations

   novelistwriter

   Biography

   Marlon James is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). Now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the U.S., James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a faculty lecturer at St. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing.

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