West Virginia University, a public university, consists of five colleges and schools offering 185 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degree programs in the arts and sciences; business and economics; creative arts; engineering and mineral resources; human resources and education; journalism; law; agriculture, forestry, and consumer sciences; dentistry; medicine; nursing; pharmacy; physical activity and sport sciences; plus the WVU Honors College and programs at Potomac State College.
WVU’s mix of historic and modern facilities includes 181 buildings on 937 acres. A Student Recreation Center, Life Sciences Building, and Library have been added in recent years. Two new residence halls are planned, along with major rehabilitation/renovations to buildings on both campuses. Ten main campus buildings are located on the National Register of Historic Places, and WVU operates eight experimental farms and four forests throughout the state.
Five library facilities – Downtown Library Complex, Evansdale Library, Health Sciences Library, Law Library, and Libraries Depository—contain 1.7 million volumes, 130 databases and more than 10,000 online full-text journals, with access to 26 million volumes through a book-sharing consortium. A new WV History OnView web site catalogs thousands of historical photos. Library staff offer in-person and online assistance.
