List of colleges and universities in West Virginia
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There are forty-four colleges and universities in the U.S. state of West Virginia that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. These institutions include two research universities, five master's universities, and fourteen baccalaureate colleges, as well as twenty-one associate's colleges. In addition, there are three institutions classified as special-focus institutions.{{cite web|url=http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/lookup_listings/institution.php |title=Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: Institution Lookup |publisher=Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |access-date=October 5, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140511101546/http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org//lookup_listings//institution.php |archive-date=May 11, 2014 }}
West Virginia's oldest surviving post-secondary institution is Bethany College, founded on March 2, 1840, by Alexander Campbell.{{Harvnb|West Virginia Legislature|2012|p=475.}}{{Harvnb|Rice|1993|p=73.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bethanywv.edu/about-bethany |title=About Bethany |publisher=Bethany College |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151005210303/http://www.bethanywv.edu/about-bethany | archive-date = October 5, 2015}} Marshall University and West Liberty University were both established in 1837, but as private subscription schools.{{cite web|url=http://www.marshall.edu/muhistory/ |title=Marshall University Official History |publisher=Marshall University |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151005210352/http://www.marshall.edu/muhistory/ | archive-date = October 5, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://westliberty.edu/about/ |title=About West Liberty University |publisher=West Liberty University |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151005210435/http://westliberty.edu/about/ | archive-date = October 5, 2015}} Founded in 1867, West Virginia University is the state's largest public institution of higher learning in terms of enrollment, as it had 29,707 students as of spring 2013.{{cite web |title=College Navigator |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=WV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005210717/http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=WV |archive-date=October 5, 2015 |access-date=August 4, 2023 |publisher=United States Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences}} Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is the state's smallest, with an enrollment of 822. With an enrollment of 1,549 students, Wheeling University is West Virginia's largest traditional private post-secondary institution, while Valley College–Princeton is the state's smallest, with an enrollment of 72. The American Public University System, a private for-profit, distance education institution based in Charles Town, has the largest enrollment of any post-secondary institution in West Virginia, with 31,331 students. Catholic Distance University, a fully online non-profit university in Charles Town, educates undergraduate students in Liberal Arts and theology and graduate students in theology and educational ministry.
West Virginia has two land-grant universities: West Virginia State University and West Virginia University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.csrees.usda.gov/qlinks/partners/partners_map.pdf |title=Map of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091008072807/http://www.nifa.usda.gov/qlinks/partners/partners_map.pdf | archive-date=October 8, 2009}} West Virginia University is also the state's sole participant university in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wvspacegrant.org/about/wvsgc/ |title=NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium |publisher=West Virginia Space Grant Consortium |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150219064834/http://www.wvspacegrant.org/about/wvsgc/ | archive-date=February 19, 2015}} In addition, West Virginia has two historically black colleges and universities that are members of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund: Bluefield State University and West Virginia State University.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/whhbcu/ |title=White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities |publisher=United States Department of Education |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151005211025/http://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/| archive-date=October 5, 2015}}{{Cite web|url=http://tmcf.org/about-us/our-schools/member-schools |title=Thurgood Marshall College Fund: Member Schools |publisher=Thurgood Marshall College Fund |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151005211121/http://tmcf.org/about-us/our-schools/member-schools | archive-date = October 5, 2015}}
West Virginia has three medical schools: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, and West Virginia University School of Medicine. It has one law school, West Virginia University College of Law, which is accredited by the American Bar Association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved.html |title=ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year |publisher=American Bar Association |access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151005215018/http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/by_year_approved.html | archive-date = October 5, 2015}} The majority (thirty-three) of West Virginia's post-secondary institutions are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).{{cite web|url=http://www.ncahlc.org/component/com_directory/Itemid,/form_submitted,TRUE/institution,/showquery,/siteOrg,none/state,WV/submit,Search/ |title=The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association |publisher=North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |access-date=October 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005215057/https://www.hlcommission.org/component/com_directory/Itemid%2C/form_submitted%2CTRUE/institution%2C/showquery%2C/siteOrg%2Cnone/state%2CWV/submit%2CSearch/ |archive-date=October 5, 2015 |url-status=dead }} Most are accredited by multiple agencies or have specific programs or units accredited by agency, including as the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), and the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
Institutions
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| scope="col" class="unsortable" | Abbreviation
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Accrediting agency |
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| scope="row"|ABA |
| scope="row"|ACEN |
| scope="row"|ACCSC |
| scope="row"|ADA |
| scope="row"|AOA |
| scope="row"|ACICS |
| scope="row"|ACPE |
| scope="row"|ADA |
| scope="row"|AOTA |
| scope="row"|APTA |
| scope="row"|APA |
| scope="row"|ASHA |
| scope="row"|ABHE |
| scope="row"|CCNE |
| scope="row"|CEPH |
| scope="row"|JRCERT
|Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology |
| scope="row"|LCME |
| scope="row"|NASAD |
| scope="row"|NASM |
| scope="row"|NAST |
| scope="row"|HLC |
| scope="row"|NCATE |
| scope="row"|TEAC |
Defunct institutions
See also
References
Explanatory notes
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- {{cite book | last = Ambler | first = Charles Henry | author-link=Charles Henry Ambler | year=1951 | title= A History of Education in West Virginia From Early Colonial Times to 1949 | publisher= Standard Printing & Publishing Company | location=Huntington, West Virginia| url=https://archive.org/details/historyofeducati00ambl/| oclc= 1205534| via = Internet Archive }}
- {{cite book | last=Peterson's | author-link=Peterson's | year=2009 | title=Vocational & Technical Schools - East: More Than 2,600 Vocational Schools East of the Mississippi River | publisher=Peterson's | location=Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey | isbn=9780768928099 | oclc=191531193 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWbYnSPZhqwC | via=Google Books | access-date=October 4, 2016 | archive-date=June 26, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626213133/http://books.google.com/books?id=LWbYnSPZhqwC | url-status=live }}
- {{cite book | last=Rice | first=Otis K. | author-link=Otis K. Rice | year=1993 | title=West Virginia: A History | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | location=Lexington, Kentucky | isbn=9780813127330 | oclc=719387818 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GcC_XbfuUEC | via=Google Books | access-date=October 4, 2016 | archive-date=January 4, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104140941/http://books.google.com/books?id=-GcC_XbfuUEC | url-status=live }}
- {{cite book | last = West Virginia Legislature | first = | year=1868b | title=Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia at an Extraordinary Session, Commencing June 2nd, 1868 | publisher=John Frew, Public Printer | location=Wheeling, West Virginia | url= https://archive.org/details/esrp422695120/1868.060/ | oclc=422695120 | via = Internet Archive }}
- {{cite journal | last1=West Virginia Legislature | editor=Darrell E. Holmes, Clerk of the West Virginia Senate | year=2012 | title=West Virginia Blue Book, 2012 | journal=West Virginia Blue Book | publisher=Chapman Printing | location=Charleston, West Virginia | issn=0364-7323 | oclc=1251675 | url=http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2012/bluebook/bluebook2012.pdf | access-date=October 5, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005191906/http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2012/bluebook/bluebook2012.pdf | archive-date=October 5, 2015 }}
- {{cite book | last=Whitehill | first=Alexander Reid | year=1902 | title=History of Education in West Virginia | publisher=United States Government Printing Office | location=Washington, D.C. | oclc=2860098 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNCgAAAAMAAJ | via=Google Books | access-date=October 4, 2016 | archive-date=June 26, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626213208/http://books.google.com/books?id=CNCgAAAAMAAJ | url-status=live }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151005230751/http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=WV United States Department of Education listing of accredited institutions in West Virginia]
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