West Virginia University

West Virginia University, abbreviated WVU, is a public land-grant research university whose main campus is in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Its other campuses include the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College in Keyser, and clinical campuses of its medical school, and an extension service has offices in all 55 counties of the state. The West Virginia Legislature created it as the Agricultural College of West Virginia on February 7, 1867, under the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, and the school opened that September. The Morgantown campus offers more than 350 degree programs in 13 colleges and schools and has the state's only law and dental schools. In this atlas it is the academic home of Walter DeKeseredy, who directs its Research Center on Violence.