West Virginia University

Academics

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)

Program helps high school graduates transition to college seamlessly

Cipriana Wood’s experience in WVU's Seamless Transition Program helped her to succeed in some of her most difficult classes.

WVU to mark International Year of Astronomy with lecture series

Four hundred years after Galileo’s first discoveries through a telescope changed how people view the heavens, WVU is celebrating the International ...

Landscape architecture students help with Miners' Memorial

Students and faculty from WVU's Davis and Eberly colleges are working with the Everettville Historical Association on a proposed design for the ...

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