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West Virginia University
Institute of Technology
West Virginia University Seal.svg
Motto Be Big Here
Established 1895
Campus President Carolyn Long
Academic staff
177 total
(120 full time)
(57 part time)
Students 1,106
Location Beckley, West Virginia, United States
38°10′46″N 81°19′29″W / 38.17944°N 81.32472°W / 38.17944; -81.32472Coordinates: 38°10′46″N 81°19′29″W / 38.17944°N 81.32472°W / 38.17944; -81.32472
Campus Rural, 200 acres.
Colors Navy blue and Gold
         
Nickname Golden Bears
Mascot Monty
Website www.wvutech.edu
WVU Tech logo.svg

West Virginia University Institute of Technology is a four-year college located in Beckley, West Virginia. It is a divisional campus of West Virginia University. The school is commonly referred to as WVU Tech, WVU Beckley, or by its former nickname of West Virginia Tech.

The college was founded in 1895 in Montgomery, West Virginia as the sub-collegiate Montgomery Preparatory School for West Virginia University. In 1917, it was separated from WVU and renamed the West Virginia Trade School. Next, in 1921, it reached the junior college level as the New River State School. It became a four-year college as New River State College in 1931 and was renamed the West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1941. It began to grant engineering degrees in 1952.

West Virginia Tech added a community college in 1966. It began granting the master's degree in engineering in 1978, but no longer offers graduate degrees. WVU Tech's community college component was separated from WVU Tech in 2004 and is now part of BridgeValley Community and Technical College.

Facing dwindling enrollment, the school became a regional campus of West Virginia University in 1996, leading to its present name. It later became an integrated division of WVU in July 2007. While several support departments on campus report directly to WVU, local oversight of academic programs remains on the WVU Tech campus.

The school had been beset with declining enrollments for many years. In 2011, the state government passed the WVU Tech Revitalization Project law, in response to its declining enrollments and financial distress. As a condition of the law, an assessment was conducted over the summer of 2011 and a “revitalization report” was completed by October 2011. The report found that:

As a result of these findings, the study recommended that the school:

In January 2015, WVU completed purchase of the buildings in Beckley formerly used by Mountain State University, which is about 30 miles from the Montgomery campus. WVU President E. Gordon Gee stated that Tech's future was "very secure" but refused to answer a question from the Charleston Daily Mail about the possibility of the school relocating.


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