Recognition
WVU is classified as a Research University (High Research Activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Twenty-five WVU students have received Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford; few public universities have produced more Rhodes Scholars than WVU.
WVU has had 32 Goldwater Scholars (America’s premier science scholarship).
There have been 20 Truman Scholars from WVU, two British Marshall Scholars (for understanding of British culture), two Udall Scholarship winners (for undergraduates in areas related to the environment and Native American studies), and one Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar.
Three WVU students recently received the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship. Only 30 students nationwide are selected for the scholarship that funds study abroad in areas critical to US national security interests.
WVU has contributed six members of USA Today’s All-USA College Academic First Team (and 11 academic team honorees).
Computer engineering major Jared Crawford was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the National Consortium for Measures and Signals Intelligence Research Scholars Program for studying the creation of nanophotonic structures called photonic crystals.
The WVU Debate Team is ranked 23rd in the nation; WVU is the only Big East school with a team in the top 25.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has honored 17 WVU faculty as West Virginia Professors of the Year.
For the second year in a row, the American Academy of Family Physicians has named the WVU School of Medicine one of the nation’s Top 10 medical schools for producing graduates choosing careers in family medicine.
The School of Nursing’s online doctor of nursing practice program is one of only four in the country that is accredited. The School of Nursing’s master’s program – also an online program – recently was named one of the best graduate programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
A WVU project to seal off transportation tunnels during a terrorist attack or natural disaster was profiled on the National Geographic channel. The project—a plug designed to inflate should there be a fire or a breach in a transportation system—was also featured in the show “Hi-Tech War on Terror.”
Marci Smeltz and Stanley Strawbridge are the first WVU students to win Department of Homeland Security Undergraduate Scholarships.
The Five Year Teacher Education Program received a Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award from the National Association of Teacher Education.
In 2009 WVU was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the second year in a row.
In the American Institute for Economic Research’s 2009-2010 College Destinations Index, Morgantown placed 19th in the “college towns” category.
History professor Robert Blobaum received a $420,000 grant to create a dual-degree master’s program in Central and Eastern European studies.
