Northern Caribbean University is a private, liberal-arts institution, and is owned and operated by the Jamaica Union Conference (JAMU) and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission (ACUM) of Seventh-day Adventists. Occupying a 200 acre property, and located 2 miles south of Mandeville town, in Manchester, Jamaica, this university offers a number of professional, pre-professional and vocational programmes in a spiritually wholesome and physically aesthetic atmosphere. NCU currently enjoys an average yearly enrolment of over five thousand students, from approximately 34 countries and is one of the largest Seventh-day Adventist tertiary institutions in the world.