West Virginia University
West Virginia University is an institute of higher learning based in
Morgantown, West Virginia, with off-site campuses in
Parkersburg,
Montgomery,
Keyser and
Charleston, West Virginia. WVU was founded in
1867 as a
land-grant university with the help of the
Morrill Act, and was originally called the "Agricultural College of West Virginia." The university gained its current name in
1868. The Morgantown campus has a
Personal rapid transit system to link its disjointed campus. Enrollment for Fall semester of
2002 was 23,492.
The school's sports teams are called the Mountaineers and compete in the Big East Conference, a member of the NCAA's Division I.
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