The University of the Indian Ocean -- a new, regional institution sponsored by five island nations off the east coast of Africa -- will offer its first degree program, a master’s in business administration, beginning this month.
Instruction will be in French and English, the languages of the five countries involved -- Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, and the Seychelles.
The program will be based at the University of Mauritius; the University of the Indian Ocean has no physical campus.
When the five countries began to discuss the idea of a regional university, they studied institutions such as the University of the South Pacific and the University of the West Indies. But officials concluded that the Indian Ocean islands were so varied that they would have to develop their own model of a regional institution. The five countries are spread over an area that measures roughly 900 by 1,300 miles.
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