Colleges and Schools

Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences
Students in the Davis College learn about some of the most basic needs of society—creating a healthy, safe food supply, and ensuring environmentally sounds and sustainable economic development. The Davis College can also teach you about wildlife resources, interior design, agribusiness, or landscape architecture.

 

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
The Eberly College is the largest and most diverse academic unit at WVU. It represents the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, mathematics, and natural sciences. The College prepares you for a specific career such as forensic investigator, psychologist, writer, or historian, but also teaches you flexibility.

 

College of Business and Economics
B&E students learn about the forces that shape the global marketplace. Classes emphasize independent thinking, decision-making, managing information, and teamwork in a diverse workforce. Study abroad opportunities in Italy, China, Cuba, and the Czech Republic bring you face-to-face with international business practices.

 

College of Creative Arts
Through dedication and passion, the College of Creative Arts advances the arts and ensures their future. The College is composed of three professionally accredited and nationally recognized divisions of Art, Music, and Theatre and Dance.

 

School of Dentistry
Oral health is integral to good health, and the School of Dentistry’s curriculum emphasizes this link while underscoring the vital role of a dentist. The School offers personalized attention to your progress and outstanding residency programs.

 

College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
WVU’s College of Engineering and Mineral Resources has a national and international reputation for engineering and computer science excellence. Students benefit from outstanding faculty, assigned engineering advisors, programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels, small classes, and over $20 million a year in external funding.

 

Honors College
With the mission of offering enriched educational opportunities for the University’s most gifted, promising, and motivated undergraduate students, the Honors College combines an intimate scholarly community with the vast opportunities of a major research university.

 

College of Human Resources and Education
By preparing teachers who create classrooms where learning flourishes, school administrators who provide leadership, counselors who enhance mental health, and speech pathologists and audiologists who augment communication skills, the College of Human Resources and Education provides programs that empower you.

 

Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism
WVU trains journalists and advertising and public relations specialists for the best jobs in the business: 98% of graduates find jobs within a year, and work at the New York Times, USA Today, ABC, and the Associated Press.

 

College of Law
For well over a century, the WVU College of Law has provided stimulating challenges and opportunities to students and has been the beginning of successful and exciting professional legal careers. Graduates benefit from a legal education that is both excellent and versatile.

 

School of Medicine
WVU’s School of Medicine educates health professionals, provides thousands of people with medical care, and conducts lifesaving research. The School’s medical faculty and students are at the leading edge of scientific studies of the biological process of life.

School of Nursing
Nursing is a very rewarding and dynamic career for both men and women. With the current nursing shortage there is a very high demand for nurses, and our graduates are able to choose from a variety of jobs, working with clients of all ages in any health care setting.

School of Pharmacy
WVU Pharmacy students learn in a series of state-of-the-art facilities. Faculty and students both conduct research that advances our knowledge of how and why drugs work. The School creates well-rounded graduates who enjoy 100% postgraduation placement.

 

College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences
Students in the College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences learn about the interrelationship between the mind and the body and the interaction of sports and culture. Graduates include trainers in the NFL, physical education teachers, sport managers, secret service agents, professional coaches, sport psychologists, and university professors.

 

Potomac State College of WVU
Potomac State College—located in Keyser, in the state’s eastern panhandle—is a division of WVU. As a two-year college with on-campus residence halls, Potomac State combines the prestige of a major school with the friendliness of a small campus.

WVU Institute of Technology
Located in the southern part of the state near Charleston, WVU Institute of Technology is a division of WVU.  WVU Tech offers a variety of baccalaureate degree programs in high-demand fields such as engineering, nursing, printing management, business management, life sciences, computer science, and health services administration.