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The College of The Bahamas :: Oakes Field :: P.O. Box N-4912 :: Nassau, The Bahamas
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Our Role
The role of The University of The Bahamas is to support and drive national development through education, research and innovation. National development is taken in its largest sense as economic, social, and cultural development.
The University of The Bahamas contributes to national development by offering high quality programmes. It will build on the successes of the College to offer high quality programmes and to develop high standards of quality assurance. It will also develop new programmes. The table below indicates which programmes are currently offered and which are under consideration for The University of The Bahamas.
Key fields are, of course, tourism and hospitality, and financial services. In addition, there are needs in marine and environmental science, maritime law and the maritime shipping industry, marina management, agriculture, fisheries, education, public policy, health and allied health, culture, construction, entrepreneurship and more. Further, three potentially important areas for building a skilled and diversified Bahamian workforce which also overlap with key disciplinary developments for innovation are: (1) pure and applied sciences, (2) engineering, and (3) information technology. It will be critical to define programmes which can be developed as 'signature' or 'flagship' programmes so that they can be best regionally and even in the world. Such flagship programmes are crucial to building a reputation for excellence over the medium to long term. It will also be important to identify key national and international partners in order to build both academic excellence and to secure adequate financial resources, particularly in expensive programmes such as engineering.
The University of The Bahamas will also contribute to national development through research and innovation. There is need for research in areas such as environmental studies, economics, sustainable development, social development, cultural heritage and development, public policy, education, and health. This type of research needs multidisciplinary teams which address real life concerns affecting public policy decisions.
The University of The Bahamas will become a driver of innovation. Innovation is used in this context to mean the development of a solution to a problem in a product or process which leads to a substantial improvement in that product or process and is of benefit to the public or private sector. Across the world, prosperity is increasingly linked to national capacity to meet global challenges, to innovate and develop new products and services. Nations now look to their universities as places where talented researchers and students and entrepreneurs work together to develop products and services which later become new businesses and new social policies.
Our Vision
A Bahamian national university which is respected locally, regionally and internationally for its excellence in teaching, research and service and for its ability to support sustainable development and prosperity.
Our Mission
The University of The Bahamas is a publicly-supported university providing excellent and accessible higher education to students across the nation and internationally.
We offer a broad range of undergraduate programmes and we promote life-long learning through professional and development programmes.
We will also offer graduate research programmes in areas where we can achieve excellence by virtue of our environment and expertise.
We prepare students to participate fully in the social, cultural, political, economic and spiritual life of their communities and the wider world of which we are all citizens.
We embrace partnerships, both nationally and internationally, with other institutions and community groups that embrace our commitment to creating and sharing knowledge and education for a better world.
Our Beliefs & Values
We are committed to academic freedom, academic integrity and high standards of ethics, research and teaching.
We believe that university education, teaching and research are public as well as private goods and that these need to be supported both by the public purse and by those who benefit either directly or indirectly from a university's contributions.
We are committed to both excellence and accessibility.
We are committed to people. We believe we are building a university powered by people and that the quality of our interaction with each other will be the single greatest measure of our ability to build a national university of which all Bahamians will be proud.
We are committed to the care and protection of our physical environment.
We believe we must be responsive to national needs and reflect and develop national culture and identity. We will seek opportunities to further research and development of national culture in all fields and we will build this knowledge into our programmes.
We believe we must act on the international stage, both in the region and beyond to build a strong reputation of quality for The University of The Bahamas.
We are committed to nurturing mutually beneficial partnerships. For this reason, we will seek partnerships where our goals converge with those of others and we will remain alert to opportunities and be nimble in profiting from these.
We are committed to the education of the 'whole' person. We aim to provide an educational experience that speaks to all aspects of life.
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