The University of the Southern Caribbean, also known as USC, is a private university operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The campus is located on 384 acres (1.55 km) of land in the Maracas Valley of the twin island of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The University offers courses as part of a package of values-based education that not only focuses on the academic, but has a holistic emphasis - an education experience that attends to the mind, heart, soul, and body - that prepares students for lives of significance and service to the world. Graduates of the institution presently serve in prominent positions all over the world. The University of the Southern Caribbean was founded in 1927 as East Caribbean Training School, for the purpose of educating the youth of the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Two years later, it became Caribbean Training College. In 1945 the college developed a college preparatory instructional programme and in 1947, Caribbean Training College was official declared a junior college, offering two-year post-secondary certificates in theology, teacher training, and business and secretarial science.