Are you planning to attend a Central America college? Then,
you have come to the right place! We have carefully
reviewed each of 4-year colleges and universities in the
continent of Central America and the following are the top
public and private programs listed by rank scores. The
following colleges and universities in Belize, Costa
Rica, El Salvador, and other countries in Latin America (refer to
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Central American
nations) have been many times ranked by education
experts based on their academic excellence and
employment statistics. Please note that all universities
were reviewed yearly based on their academic
reputations, research ability and graduate performance.
Montserrat - British overseas territory
Montserrat, British overseas territory; one of the
Leeward Islands in the Caribbean; 102 km2,
5200 residents (2012). A new capital city is under
construction at Little Bay following the destruction of
the former Plymouth in 1997. The island is a full member
of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and has
the Eastern Caribbean dollar as its currency. Since
1995, the volcano Soufriere Hills in the southern part
of the island has been in activity and has buried
Plymouth and large parts of the southern half of the
island with ash. Volcanism is being closely monitored,
and new, even more violent eruptions are feared. It is
the first eruption of the volcano in historical time,
but has for several periods in the 1900-t. been
increased earthquake and fumarole activity.
Montserrat has been inhabited for 1500 years;
Christoffer Columbus visited the island in 1493. The
first European residents were Catholic Irish from the
neighboring island of Saint Christopher, who were forced
to do so in 1632. Now the population is mainly
descendants of African slaves.
Until the volcanic eruption, most of the island was
covered by scrub forest, while 20% was cultivated with
export crops such as chili and flowering plants. 2/3
of the residents are moved from the island. In 2005, a
new airport opened and the building of a new community
is underway.
U.S. Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands, until 1917 Danish West Indies,
territory under the US Federal Government; 346 km2,
106,400 residents (2010).
The islands (Saint Croix, Saint John and Saint
Thomas) are located at the northern end of the Lesser
Antilles; they are mountainous (Crown Peak 474 m) and
have a tropical climate.
The islands have during the 1900-t. experienced a
significant emigration to the mainland of the USA and at
the same time an extensive immigration from Puerto Rico
and the Dominican Republic. Thus, it is now only
approximately half of the population is made up of the
descendants of the residents of the Danish-West Indian
colonial society, where the majority were originally
African slaves.
The integration into American society has been made
more difficult by e.g. U.S. racial segregation policy
that lasted until the 1960's. This relationship,
together with the local dialect of English and the great
distance to the mainland, has been crucial to the
preservation of a special identity as a virgin islander.
The main income on Saint Thomas comes from tourism,
which is especially based on the capital Charlotte
Amalie's position as one of the world's most important
cruise ports. The sparsely populated Saint John is home
to a more exclusive tourism based on the unusually
attractive beaches.
A large oil refinery and other industry form the
economic basis of Saint Croix. A growing part of the
population is Spanish-speaking, but English is the main
language. The Danish city names and some of the street
names have been preserved.
The Catholic Church is the largest of the islands,
but colonial-era fraternal congregations and the
Lutheran, Dutch Reformed and Anglican churches as well
as the Mosaic congregation still form a significant part
of the denominations.
The local parliamentary government consists of a
Senate seated in Charlotte Amalie. The people have
elected the governor of the territory since 1970, but
there is no right to vote in the US presidential
election. The cities have a large number of buildings
from the Danish colonial era, including the general
government building in Christiansted, the parliament
building in Charlotte Amalie in a former Danish
barracks, churches, customs and weighing stalls, forts,
grocery farms and homes.
Outside the cities, there are a number of plantation
buildings including slave houses, sugar production
plants, mills and plantation owner-occupied dwellings,
while other allotment houses lie as ruins. The Whim
plantation on Saint Croix is housed as a plantation
museum.
1. National Autonomous University of Mexico
2. Central American University Jose Simeon Canas
3. University of Panama
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