Thursday, February 26, 2015


In the year 1976, St. George's University was discovered  by the  act of Grenada's Parliament. The name was  kept, in the name of its capital.  Charles Modica, Patrick F. Adams, Edward McGowan, and Louis Modica were its original founders. The Classes began on January 17, 1977  at St. George’s School of Medicine. All of the founding faculty members  went for educated either in Europe or the United States of America.

St. George’s University is  a commercial , international,  independent university in Grenada, West Indies, providing degrees in medicine, public health, veterinary medicine,  the health sciences, arts and sciences along with  nursing  and business.

 In the year  1993, the University included  undergraduate and graduate programs. In the year 1996, it was recognized as the School of Arts and Sciences and a Graduate Studies Program. In the year 1997, it included undergraduate courses like  international business, medical sciences,  life sciences, pre-medical and pre-veterinary medicine . In the year 1999 ,  School of Veterinary Medicine was made along with  the University's Department of  Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

In the year 1979,A Marxist coup forcibly changed  the Gairy government of Grenada , as the school was new with a student  of 630.On the island , There were about thousands  Americans including students,  families, faculty, etc.  In the year 1983, The U.S. government begin Operation Urgently as a result, classes and students were   moved  and evacuated to a Long Island in  New Jersey ,New York   and Barbados for a limited period of time.

The reason was to save  American medical students of  St. George’s University by the violent coup that has dethrone the  Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop . Bishop along with several dozen civilians and a number of members of his government  were killed in the coup and the island was kept in  curfew  under  24-hour. The days instantly after the coup, the only independent information  was from a ham radio which was operated by the  student of St. George’s . President Reagan  in his autobiography told that the  return of the St. George’s students  to the U.S. was an event that touched  him deeply.President Reagan told that he   was among many in his  country whose eyes went  a little misty  when he looked their arrival in the USA on television and saw some of them on their  knees  kissing the  American soil at the time  they stepped off the air plane.

In March of the year 2013,  SGU was searching for  a partner who was interested in helping them  expand the university .In August  of the year 2014 ,they got  a $750 Million investment .

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