Ricks Institute

Welcome to Ricks Institute, a premier co-educational institution, K-12, located in the heights of Virginia, Liberia. We are approximately five miles from the City of Brewerville, and ten miles from Monrovia the nation’s capital.

We bring you greetings from the President of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention, LBM&EC, Rev. Dr. Samuel B. Reeves, Deacon Francis L.M. Horton, Chairman, Education Commission, LBMEC, Rev. Dr. Arnold G. Hill, Chairman, Sub-Committee, Secondary Education, LBMEC, Hon. Ophelia Hoff Saytumah, Chairman of the Ricks Board of Trustees, the Ricks Institute Alumni Associations, USA, and Liberia, faculty, staff, and our students.

To our parents, thank you for choosing Ricks Institute for your children’s education. To our prospective parents and students, we thank you for considering Ricks Institute for your children’s educational needs. The student population at Ricks Institute reflects cultural, geographic, and economic diversity. Since its establishment in 1887, a little over 135 years ago, Ricks Institute has been training champions for service, sending them into the world to serve with distinction in both private and public sectors. We train the best and the world takes.

Your visit to the Ricks Institute beautiful campus in person or online is not an accident but an affirmation of God’s blessings on both you and us. We hope that you and your family become part of the Ricks Institute culture of training champions for service. It is our prayer that the Lord meets the needs of your heart today as you fetch a fresh flavor of his favor.

We solicit your fervent prayers for our many challenges ahead. We believe that the power that sustains us is greater than the task ahead. Knowing this, we can confidently, convincingly, and courageously sing, the Dragons’ Ode, “onward and upward the victors we go; with God before us, the success we sure…”

Stella Polaris, O Ricks Institute…
Rev. Enoch G. Nyankoon, Sr. PhD
Principal