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What can you become at WVU? Just about anything you want to be!
We currently offer 185 degree programs, making your possibilities nearly limitless. New programs continue to be added as the University adapts to the current needs of our students and the ever-changing job market. Many majors result in extremely high job placement rates (for example, nursing = 100%, mining engineering = 100%, pharmacy = 100%).
Our proud tradition of academic excellence attracts some of the region’s best high school seniors. Whether your goal is to be a nurse, speech pathologist, forensic investigator, opera singer, physicist, reporter, aerospace engineer, athletic trainer, CEO, interior designer, lawyer, or pharmacist, our 15 colleges and schools can make it happen.
We’re proud to have produced:
- 25 Rhodes Scholars, winners of the world’s most prestigious scholarship (President Hardesty was one)
- 32 Goldwater Scholars (America’s premier science scholarship)
- 20 Truman Scholars (given by the U.S. Congress for exceptional public service)
- 6 members of USA Today’s All-USA College Academic First Team
- 2 Udall Scholarship winners (given to undergraduates in areas related to the environment and Native American studies)
- 2 British Marshall Scholars (awarded to undergraduates and graduates for two or three years of study in the United Kingdom)
- 1 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar (awarded to college seniors and recent graduates for six years of graduate study)
Philosophy Club
This organization serves as the foundation of the Philosophy Department’s tight-knit community of both faculty and students.