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The West Virginia University College of Law is the professional school for the study of law at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. The law school was established on February 20, 1878, as the first professional school in the state, and remains the only law school in the state.
The general freshman acceptance rate at WVU is 71.9% of applications received with an average entering student GPA of 3.42, an SAT super score of 1115 of 1600, and an ACT super score of 24 of 36. [86] In the fall of 2020, the university relaxed its test score requirements for students applying for admission in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
West Virginia University is also the state's sole participant university in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. [9] 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.
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [234] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
The 2020–21 West Virginia Mountaineers men's basketball team represented West Virginia University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Mountaineers were coached by Bob Huggins, in his 14th season as WVU's head coach, and played their home games at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, West Virginia as members of the Big 12 Conference.
The West Virginia Mountaineers men's soccer team is the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I soccer team of West Virginia University (WVU). [2] Beginning with the 2012 season, the team was an affiliate member of the Mid-American Conference because WVU is the only school in its primary conference, the Big 12 Conference, that has a varsity men's soccer team. [3]
The school became a regional campus of West Virginia University in 1996, leading to its present name. [4] It later became an integrated division of WVU in July 2007. [5] While several support departments on campus report directly to WVU, local oversight of academic programs remains on the WVU Tech campus.
West Virginia University at Parkersburg, abbreviated WVUP and WVU Parkersburg, is a public community college in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Although it was originally part of West Virginia University , it is now an independent public institution with its own board of governors and degree-granting authority.