Northern Caribbean University is a Seventh-day Adventist, English-speaking university. It is located on a two-hundred acre property two miles south of the town of Mandeville, in Manchester, Jamaica. It is owned and operated by West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventist which has its headquarters in Mandeville. The University is a private, four-year, co-educational, liberal-arts institution, offering a number of professional, pre-professional and vocational programmes and is the only multi-disciplinary tertiary institution serving rural Jamaica. Its enrollment exceeds 4500 students from over 35 countries.