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 .