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 the Jamaica Union Conference and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists. 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 enrolment averages over 5000 students from over 34 countries.