West Virginia University

Nightmare
I would love to say that this is a place in which WVU excels, but in reality it fails miserably. Parking is a nightmare, with only one free parking option for commuters. Traffic in town is horrib...

Outdoor Lovers Haven
I came to WVU as a Parks and Recreation major, and so the outdoor opportunities nearby were a HUGE attraction for me. Within three hours of campus you have numerous ski resorts, world class whitew...

Kinda iffy
Morgantown is situated in a place that it gets a lot of random weather. During spring it is entirely possibly to find yourself wearing shorts one day, and having it snowing the next. When the sun...

Wanted: People willing to work hard
WVU has more than 20,000 students, and with those thousands of students comes thousands of support staff needed to make things run. If you're willing to do manual labor and work hard, then there's...

Big University, Bad Teachers
It seems like bad teachers have sort of become a "calling card" of big universities. WVU is no different. There are an abundance of foreign professors who speak broken english. There are an abun...

Towers is great
WVU has a large variety of different options for student housing ranging from the traditional "dormitory" style to suites and apartments. A lot of people will complain about specific dorms (partic...

DA vs. Jeffersonian
For a fairly long time, students had two major options of where to get their news on campus: either the Daily Athenaeum, which is the student-run campus paper, or the Dominion Post which is Morgant...

Great campus
The downtown campus of WVU is comprised of many older original buildings such as Woodburn Hall, but also has many newer buildings built in the last few years. The Life Science Building, which hous...

Morgantown's Highest Street
Downtown Morgantown is centered around High Street, which very much resembles your typical main street in a city. There are lots of clubs, including Chasers, Club Z, Illusions, Tabu and many more....

Let's Gooo Mountaineers!
Athletics are a huge part of life at West Virginia University and for the state as a whole. Since the state has no professional sports teams, many residents choose to cheer on the Mountaineers reg...