Alafua Campus

Over 200 graduate from USP Samoa

Vice Chancellor President USP, Professor Pal Ahluwalia confirmed that a total of 270 students graduated from the university.

 "Of those graduated, 73 per cent of those are women with 42 students received two or three awards counted once under their highest award.”

"Of the 270 students, 51 per cent are from our Pacific TAFE programmes and 30% are awarded from our undergraduate programmes.” 

A total of 50 postgraduate certificates were also awarded by the USP according to the Vice Chancellor, of which 30 Master Degrees. 

USP Alafua staff, students promote health and wellness

Ms Ronna Lee, Alafua’s Student Welfare Officer (SWO) said the main Zumba instructor is Ms Eterei Maiava, who undertakes the programme at Samoa Performing Arts & Creative Excellence (SPACE), a dance studio established by the late Allan Alo.

SPACE is a Dance studio that was established by the late Seiuli Allan Alo, the Pacific Outreach Coordinator for Polynesia to provide a platform to nurture and explore the development of dance, music, art, mixed media, literary arts and more.  It is the first ever professional dance/performance studio in Samoa.

Samoa's Alafua Campus cohort graduates from Cisco Academy

In his keynote address, Professor Mohammed Umar, Head of the School of Agriculture & Food Technology (SAFT) and acting Campus Director, said the first USP Alafua Cisco cohort started in 2011 comprising 25 students who were largely Information Communication Technology (ICT) engineers, Information Technology (IT) managers, systems and network administrators and technicians from local internet service providers and various computer companies including government ministries and corporations.

135 students graduate from USP Alafua Campus

Students who graduated were from 13 countries including non-regional countries of Australia, Belize, Jamaica, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea.

Nineteen per cent (19%) of graduates received Postgraduate qualifications and eleven (11) graduated with Master’s degree.

Fifty per cent (50%) of the graduates were females.

The event was attended by Honouorable Henry Puna, USP Chancellor and Prime Minister of Cook Islands and Mrs Akaiti Puna; Hon. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa; and Ambassador Winston Thompson.

USP enrollments double in eight years

USP President and Vice Chancellor Professor Rajesh Chandra says this year there are more than 30,000 students enrolled at USP.

This is almost double the number of students who were enrolled at the institute eight years ago.

"We (USP) are doing really well. We’ve grown so much over the years and the numbers are at its highest ever since 2008. I would say that USP today is steadily moving along the journey of transforming itself from a good university that people accept it to be, to being an excellent university," he said.