Mountain State Academy
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| Type | Private University |
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| Active | 1933–2012 |
| President | Dr. Richard E. Sours |
| Students | 8,200 |
| Location | Beckley, West Virginia, United States |
| Athletics | Cougars |
| Colors | Blue and Silver |
| Website | www.mountainstate.edu |
Mountain State University (MSU) was a private nonsectarian not-for-profit university based in Beckley, West Virginia, United States. The university ceased to operate effective January 1, 2013. All degrees conferred on or before December 31, 2012 are valid and were received from an accredited institution. MSU was previously listed as one of the best universities in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. The school had also been named a Military Friendly school by G.I. Jobs.
The University of Charleston established campuses on MSU's former Beckley and Martinsburg, West Virginia locations on January 1, 2013. UC later vacated the former Martinsburg campus (the property was sold to a third-party buyer), and established a new location in Martinsburg. UC vacated the former Beckley campus after the 2014-15 academic year and established a new campus in Beckley. UC is the permanent holder of MSU's student records.
On December 31, 2014, West Virginia University announced that it would purchase MSU’s former Beckley campus for $8 million. On September 1, 2015, the WVU Board of Governors approved a plan to move the West Virginia University Institute of Technology from its current campus in Montgomery to the former MSU campus in Beckley. It is expected that freshman classes will be offered at the Beckley campus in 2016. The move will be completed by the fall 2017 semester.
The university was founded in 1933 as Beckley College, a junior college, and continued as such until 1991, when it achieved four-year status and was renamed The College of West Virginia. In 2001, the school was renamed Mountain State University.
The university offered more than 60 undergraduate, master's, and certificate programs, as well as a doctoral degree program. Most of the university's programs focused on the professions in business, technology, and health and human services. Many of MSU's degree programs were available online.
From 2002 to 2010, Mountain State University operated a private nonsectarian college preparatory school from grades K-12 known as The Academy at Mountain State University, or Mountain State Academy (MSA), in Beckley, West Virginia. The school was also occasionally referred to as MSU Academy.
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