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Pierpont is headquartered at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) main campus at the I-79 Technology Park in Fairmont, West Virginia. Fairmont, the seat of government for Marion County, is located approximately 90 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has a population of about 19,000. [4]
[5] [6] 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. [7] Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is the state's smallest, with an enrollment of 822. [ 7 ]
The Loop bus used to provide service hourly out Locust, Country Club and Fairmont Avenue alternating the direction of travel on even hours via Fairmont Avenue and on odd hours via Locust Avenue. This service was established in the mid-1980s and operated the highest frequency at the time of any route every hour with 8 trips on Saturday.
Mountain Line Transit Authority is the public transportation operator serving Monongalia County, West Virginia, including Morgantown and the campus of West Virginia University. Mountain Line, officially the Monongalia County Urban Mass Transit Authority, operates 22 local bus routes in Monongalia County, and one intercity route to Pittsburgh ...
It and the Fairmont State University Police Academy in Fairmont, West Virginia are the only law enforcement training schools in West Virginia. The State Police Academy, founded by (Ret.) Captain Charles Ray, held its first training class in 1953. The school sits on 24 acres (97,000 m 2) of land.
In 2002 AMU expanded to become American Public University System and established American Public University, intended primarily for civilians interested in public service programs. In 2006 APUS was granted regional accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. In 2012 American Public University System resigned its DETC accreditation. [9]
It is immediately south of the larger city and county seat of Fairmont, West Virginia. The city is also adjacent to the Tygart Valley River . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 3.41 square miles (8.83 km 2 ), of which 3.23 square miles (8.37 km 2 ) is land and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km 2 ) is water.
West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC) is a public community college with its main campus in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia. Established in 1972, WVNCC serves all six counties in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. It is part of the West Virginia Community and Technical College System.