Colleges and Universities Offering Bachelor of Science in Youth Development Work in Jamaica

Institutions Offering Bachelor of Science in Youth Development Work

•  The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus, Brown's Town  
  Admission criteria
  Applicants must satisfy the requirements in either (a) or (b) or (c) or (d) below:
  (a) Entrants with CXC-CSEC and GCE qualifications having:
  -An acceptable pass in CXC-CSEC Mathematics or its equivalent; AND
  -An acceptable pass in CXC-CSEC English A; AND
  
  One of the following minimum qualifications:
  -either five subjects (at least two GCE ‘A’ Level or CAPE) and the remainder acceptable passes in CXC-CSEC or GCE ‘O’ Level; OR
  
  -four subjects (at least three GCE ‘A’ Level or CAPE) and the fourth an acceptable pass in the CXC-CSEC or GCE ‘O’ Level
  
  Grade requirements for CXC/CSEC subjects are General Proficiency, Grades I or II pre‐1998 and Grades I, II, or III from June 1998.
  
  (b) Holders of five (5) CXC-CSEC or GCE ‘O’ Level passes or equivalent, not necessarily obtained at the same sitting.
  
  (c) Entrants with a Diploma, Certificate or Associate Degree in Youth Development Work from UWI or another approved Caribbean tertiary level institution,having attained a B+ average or a minimum GPA of 2.5.
  
  -Graduates of the existing CYP or UWI Diploma programmes in Youth Development Work may receive special permission for exemption from degree courses where courses completed in the Diploma are identical or equivalent to Level I degree courses.
  
  -Graduates of the Associate Degree in Youth Work from the University of Guyana may receive exemption for courses completed, which are identical or equivalent to UWI Level I degree courses.
  
  (d) Persons over the age of 21, who have been out of school for at least five years, on the basis of their overall academic and professional attainments.
  
  The English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT) is used to assess whether persons applying to pursue undergraduate degree programmes at the university possess a satisfactory level of writing and reading proficiency in English for university academic purposes.
  
  Course duration: 3 years

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