West Virginia State University

Academics

Access, Success, and Impact

Our focus on academic excellence provides access, success, and impact to our students. Offering a wide range of certificates, minors, four-year, and graduate degrees, studying at West Virginia State University allows you to achieve your academic dreams in an affordable atmosphere.

Find Your Program

WVSU’s undergraduate curricula foster critical thinking, hands-on learning, and career preparation through internships and research opportunities.

Our graduate programs blend theory with applications, providing advanced skills for professional growth. Evening and online classes accommodate working students.


West Virginia State University (WVSU) offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees through its four colleges. Degrees are awarded in 23 undergraduate programs in the arts, sciences, business, education and professional studies. Our students enjoy lots of academic options, including 28 minors, an Honors Program, and various research and internship opportunities.

Visit each College’s site to explore all of the academic options available at WVSU.

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The College of Arts and Humanities is dedicated to the ideals of a liberal arts education and serves as the intellectual core of the University, offering disciplinary study in five undergraduate departments (i.e., Art, Communications, English, Modern Foreign Languages, and Music) and one graduate program in Media Studies, as well as general education courses to all undergraduate students in the areas of Fine Arts, Speech Communication, Literature, International Perspectives, and Composition.

The College’s unique combination of Business and Social Science disciplines sets us apart and enables us to enhance student marketability and career opportunities by developing a broader set of capabilities, skills and competencies required to succeed in today’s world. Students can study business and social science disciplines and also pursue flexible combinations to enrich their educational experience.

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics has four academic departments: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, and Physics. Its faculty and staff are committed to delivering quality undergraduate programs in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering (Civil and Chemical emphasis), and Mathematics; graduate programs in Biotechnology and Computer Science; and general education courses in the areas of Mathematics and Natural Sciences to all the University students.

Rich in tradition, the College of Professional Studies is organized around some of the University’s earliest developed programs. Students can choose from academic programs in EducationHealth and Human Performance, NursingSocial Work and Criminal Justice. In addition, the College houses Military Science/ROTC as an elective course of study specializing in management, leadership, and life skills.

An institution’s catalog is one of the most important and centralized documents in higher education. It serves as the guide and resource for students and the community from policy to curriculum to faculty & administrative offices in one central location.

WVSU 2024-2025 Catalog
WVSU 2023-2024 Catalog
WVSU 2022-2023 Catalog
WVSU 2021-2022 Catalog

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Student and Faculty Spotlight

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Amanda Menendez Thomasson is a junior majoring in Communications and minoring in Marketing with an emphasis in Visual Media. Amanda hails all the way from Sweden, and is a member

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Sasidhar Kadiyala is a second year graduate student pursuing his Master of Science with our Cybersecurity Program! Sasidhar hails from India, but currently resides in Dunbar, West Virginia, while he

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Eva Sullivan is a junior Agriculture Business major here at WVSU! Eva is heavily involved with athletics on campus, as she plays for the Yellow Jacket Volleyball Team. She is

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