Our recent alumni and current candidates are psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, psychoanalysts, educators, and administrators. They possess countless certifications and licenses and have appeared on dozens of national television and radio broadcasts. They have published books and articles in a variety of professional

publications and journals including The Journal of Traumatology, The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy and The School Psychologist. They have made hundreds of presentations, including those at Harvard, New York University, Rutgers and other prestigious universities. In addition, they have been presenters at many national and international conferences.

Additionally,

1)   Our University has been in existence since 1979 and is fully accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

2    Candidates are required to take a minimum of 15 of the 81 credits to earn their doctorate and/or 9 of the 36 credits to earn their masters at our University.

   I  IUGS is included in the World Higher Education Database, maintained by the International Association of             Universities. Founded in 1950, the IAU is an NGO maintaining formal associate relations with UNESCO and is listed online at http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/list.html). 

4    IUGS is a member of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators and co-hosted the 2005 annual conference with the Federation of the Country of St. Kitts and Nevis. http://sta.uwi.edu/achea/index.htm

Approval for tuition reimbursement for candidates employed by North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, which has 38,000 employees in New York State and Johns Hopkins University.  Union 1199 for Human Health Services Employees in New York also provides scholarships.  Other government and private agencies provide tuition reimbursement and payment for our candidates.

6)   Our candidates and alumni hold or have held key administrative positions in education throughout the United States, including Timothy Lisante, Director of Student Placement and Youth and Family Support, Office of Alternative Academies and Programs, New York City Department of Education, Dr. Alfred Lodovico who states that he owes his promotion to Superintendent of Schools of the Mount Pleasant Central School District, Westchester County, New York to his doctoral degree which he earned at IUGS.

7)   Our alumni in the metropolitan New York area hold full time professorial positions at Fordham University, Hunter College, and Rutgers University.  In addition, many of our alumni teach or have taught on a full time as well as an adjunct basis at the graduate and undergraduate level in New York State as well as various colleges and universities throughout the United States.

    I IUGS has many testimonials from various Ph.D.s and Psy.D.s who are and have been faculty members at our University and who have acted as mentors to our doctoral and master’s candidates, including Dr. Ron Siegel, a professor at Harvard Medical School who attests to the quality of our students and our program.  Faculty members and mentors are screened before interaction with our University and our candidates.