P.O. Box 6009 Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6009 CONNECT WITH US! @wvumountaineers @WestVirginiaU QUESTIONS? Email us at [email protected]. Or contact a counselor directly: admissions.wvu.edu/admissions-counselors. FIND YOUR FUTURE HERE. West Virginia University partners with and employs companies (agencies) or individuals (agents) to assist with student recruitment. WVU is an EEO/Affi rmative Action Employer — minority/female/disability/veteran. THIS IS YOUR FUTURE. You may not know yet where your journey will take you, or which path to choose, but one thing is certain — it all starts now. Finding your purpose is the fi rst step. Fulfi lling it will be a lifelong journey. But you’ll never have to travel that path alone. At West Virginia University, you will fi nd your family, your mentors, your friends — fellow Mountaineers who will guide and inspire you every step of the way. Who will you become? Where will you go? Ready to fi nd out? Let’s go! WELCOME TO WVU: go.wvu.edu/almost-heaven 1 Where we are. Our Morgantown campus is just 70 miles (112 km) south of Pittsburgh and 3 1/2 hours from Washington, D.C. Morgantown is within a 500-mile (800 km) radius of one-third of the population of the U.S. SEATTLE 6 hours BOSTON PITTSBURGH DETROIT 590 miles/950 km 355 miles/571 km 76 miles/122 km 9 hours 5.5 hours 1.5 hours CHICAGO 528 miles/849 km NEW YORK CITY 8 hours 378 miles/608 km CLEVELAND 6 hours 204 miles/328 km WASHINGTON, D.C. 3.5 hours MORGANTOWN 205 miles/330 km 3.5 hours LOS ANGELES CHARLOTTE, NC 6.5 hours 377 miles/606 km 6 hours DALLAS 3 hours ORLANDO HOUSTON 2 hours 3 hours MIAMI 3 hours FLIGHT TIMES VIRTUAL TOKYO TO PITTSBURGH — 13 hours TOUR BEIJING TO PITTSBURGH — 14 hours Check out WVU from wherever you are, 14 hours RIYADH TO PITTSBURGH — whenever you want. DELHI TO PITTSBURGH — 19 hours admissions.wvu.edu/visit RIO TO PITTSBURGH — 13 hours BOGOTA TO PITTSBURGH — 8.5 hours LAGOS TO PITTSBURGH — 15 hours 2 3 FAST FACTS FAST FACTS STUDENT-TO-FACULTY RATIO WVU MORGANTOWN WVU is the FBI’s national U.S. NEWS & WORLD leader for biometrics research. REPORT RANKINGS + UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS 18 26,000 intercollegiate College Gazette describes 120 Engineering students at all levels 18:1 varsity sports (means more personal (get your game WVU as one of the GRADUATE PROGRAMS attention from professors) face on) 31 Pharmacy 96 Political Science 21,000+ undergraduate TOP 10 “HIDDEN GEM” 37 Rehabilitation Counseling 98 History public universities in the U.S. 58 Medical Schools 99 English out-of-state students (Primary Care) 100 Physics 11,900+ TOP 3% 64 Clinical Psychology 102 Public Health OF 19,000 70 Social Work 107 2019 FRESHMAN PROFILE Earth Sciences graduate students 200,000+ 73 UNIVERSITIES ACT SAT GPA Audiology 109 S peech-Language 4,200+ worldwide alumni 23 1195 3.45 73 Fine Arts Pathology WORLDWIDE (your Mountaineer best set network) WVU does not require ACT/SAT scores for admission. 79 Education 111 Computer Science (Center for World professional students University Rankings — 2018) 79 Occupational Therapy 111 Law 1,400+ 114 83 Economics Chemistry 125 WVU won a 2019 Senator Paul Simon Award for 83 Physical Therapy Engineering 127 males females 84 M edical Schools Mathematics 49% 51% (Research) 131 Psychology 14 Colleges CAMPUS 90 Public Affairs Programs 175 Biological Sciences and Schools ONLINE PROGRAMS Eberly College of Arts INTERNATIONALIZATION. and Sciences 258 Bachelor's (all offerings) 32 Master's in Computer Information Technology Davis College of Agriculture, Potential employers have Natural Resources and Design 34 Master's in Business 3,200 Hundreds of companies included FedEx, GE, Microsoft, 47 Proctor & Gamble, Deloitte, MBA undergraduates participated in real research projects John Chambers College of HIRE WVU GRADUATES. Marathon, Nalco/Ecolab. 60 Master's in Education Business and Economics College of Creative Arts School of Dentistry WVU IS ONE OF ONLY 140 130 R1 INSTITUTIONS College of Education and 360 UNDERGRADUATE Human Services MAJORS in the U.S. to earn the “very 7 majors high research” designation Benjamin M. Statler College LIBRARIES (Total Bachelor’s, Master’s, from 108 speak 100 of Engineering 142 (a group that includes Johns Hopkins, MIT, Stanford) from 50 and Mineral Resources 1,821,669 Doctoral and Professional) countries languages U.S. states BOOKS MINORS College of Law 400,845 Reed College of Media EBOOKS W V U S Y S T E M 138 Master’s 82 Doctoral and Professional ENROLLMENT School of Medicine at our three campuses: WVU Morgantown, School of Nursing WVU Beckley and WVU Keyser School of Pharmacy WVU IS ACCREDITED BY THE HIGHER College of Physical Activity + and Sport Sciences LEARNING COMMISSION. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 29,000 1,860 School of Public Health Many degree programs hold specialized accreditation. 4 5 WHAT DOES THIS One of MEAN FOR YOU? The best faculty and students want to be at R1 institutions. You will work with incredible researchers and teachers, and your degree a few. will be respected. Plus, you get to play We are one of only about a dozen with (OK, learn from) some really cool toys, schools in the U.S. that are land-grant, facilities and academic collections. doctoral research universities with a GREEN BANK OBSERVATORY comprehensive medical school. This means we have a lab, classroom, care WV STEPS CENTER (HAS LIFELIKE PATIENT SIMULATORS center, hospital or resource for every RANGING FROM BABIES TO ADULTS) system in the human body. We are also a space-grant university, part of a network CERAMICS STUDIO WITH POTTERY WHEELS AND KILNS formed for outer space-related research. J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown includes 13 FARMS AND FORESTS WVU Medicine Children’s and a level-1 trauma center ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA Five healthcare schools (Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health) NEARLY 5,000 PIECES WVU Medicine was included by Newsweek on its inaugural list of the “World’s Best Hospitals” OF ARTWORK IN THE WVU ART MUSEUM Home of the world’s WORLD’S LARGEST COLLECTION OF VESICULAR-ARBUSCULAR R1 RESEARCH FIRST INSTITUTE MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI devoted to studying human memory, the WVU (THAT’S A LOT OF MUSHROOMS) CLASSIFICATION Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. WVU is in the most elite category of HISTORIC COSTUME COLLECTION research schools, alongside Harvard, Yale The WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute was and Johns Hopkins. WVU researchers have: the first in the world to use TELESCOPE AND PLANETARIUM received $181.4 million in external funding for research and sponsored programs DEEP BRAIN CLEAN ROOMS (E.G., FOR helped discover the most massive neutron star ELECTRONICS FABRICATION) been part of a team that helped to prove Einstein’s STIMULATION theory of relativity to fight opioid addiction. discovered fast radio bursts in outer space FLIGHT SIMULATOR youtube.com/watch?v=T-d1ixk-Y9k ROBOTS RULE. The WVU Robotics student team came in first inNASA’s 2019 Mars Ice CORE ARBORETUM (AN OLD- It’s easy to move on to a Challenge (they previously won in 2017) and won the 2016 Sample Return GROWTH FOREST, RIGHT ON Robot Challenge — beating over 50 other schools. professional health-related Check out some student-researchers CAMPUS FOR RESEARCH) youtube.com/watch?v=wdVCotOvVz4 career at WVU. at undergraduateresearch.wvu. edu/student-spotlights. 6 7 CRICKET KINGS. WVU’s club cricket team won the 2019 American College Cricket national championship. The team captain, Sai Satish Guda, a mechanical engineering doctoral student from India, played on the team for six years. Photo Credit: American Cricket Association 8 9 We go fi rst. Our online Music Industry program is ranked as one of the top- seven in the U.S. The WVU Crime Scene Complex, which includes four houses and a vehicle processing center, is one of the fi ve most-innovative labs in the U.S. (ForensicsColleges.com) WVU’s Statler College is ranked as the #4 Best Value Engineering School (Best Value Schools). We are one of only three ABET accredited programs in the U.S. that includes both petroleum and natural gas engineering. The WVU Reed College of Media is one of only 39 schools (internationally) awarded Certifi cation for Education in Public Relations. Our Aquatics Therapy program (in the exercise physiology major) is the only one in the U.S. The Robbins Center for Global Business and Strategy supports research and outreach related to global business strategies in G20 countries. The WVU School of Pharmacy is ranked in the top 20% of national schools. The Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions (CAFEE) made worldwide headlines about ethical vehicle emissions testing. WVU has been named in the top sales schools in the world for nine consecutive years by the Professional Sales Institute. NEUROSCIENCE is one of hottest fi elds of science; WVU students have access to the latest high-resolution imaging equipment to watch nerve cells in action. wvumedicine.org/rni INCREDIBLE TEACHERS — Nearly 1,000 of your future mentors hold a doctorate, meaning they are experts in their fi elds. And they can’t wait to share that knowledge with you. WVU LAUNCHLAB Bring us your vision, and we will help you bring it to life. You’ll fi nd an entrepreneurial ecosystem to help you launch your business, market your product, design your future — and turn your boldness into purpose. 210+ BUSINESSES 1,900+ $90,000+ in the pipeline student visits in startup funding 10 11 MORGANTOWN HAS A TEMPERATE CLIMATE WITH FOUR DISTINCT SEASONS: A special place. spring, summer, fall (autumn) and winter.