It is one of 5 general campuses in the University of the West Indies system, which are ranked 1st in the Caribbean.

[2] Although St. Augustine is the main campus in Trinidad and Tobago, there are also a satellite campuses of UWI St. Augustine in nearby Mount Hope (within the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex) that houses the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University as well as the new South campus in Debe.

UWI St. Augustine, which began in 1960, was borne out of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture.

It is the only member university of the system that boasts a Faculty of Food and Agriculture, an area of expertise that has long been interwoven into the history of the Caribbean islands.

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