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West Virginia University
West Virginia University, founded in 1867 as the state's land-grant institution, is West Virginia's flagship public research university, and its forensic and investigative sciences program is one of the most respected in the country, benefiting from close ties to the FBI's nearby Criminal Justice Information Services Division. The university's engineering and energy-related research programs reflect West Virginia's significant coal and natural gas economy, and WVU's continued research into mine safety and energy extraction technology serves a state economy still substantially tied to those industries. WVU's Mountaineers football program and its passionate fan base, including the tradition of students rolling downtown Morgantown streets in toilet paper after major victories, has given the university a distinctive athletic culture central to its broader public identity across the state. The university's combination of genuine forensic science research strength, its energy and mining-related engineering programs, and its role as the state's clear public flagship has made WVU central to both West Virginia's higher education system and its broader economic development.
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Shepherd University
Shepherd University, founded in 1871, is located in the historic town of Shepherdstown, West Virginia's oldest town, and the university's proximity to Washington, DC, roughly 70 miles away, gives students in its business, environmental studies, and political science programs unusually direct access to internships in the federal government and policy sector. The university's environmental studies program benefits from Shepherdstown's location along the Potomac River and its proximity to significant Chesapeake Bay watershed conservation research, and Shepherd's contemporary music program has built a solid regional reputation. Shepherd's historic campus, integrated into Shepherdstown's well-preserved 18th- and 19th-century downtown, gives the university a distinctive small-town historic setting relative to West Virginia's larger public institutions. The university's combination of its historic small-town setting, its proximity-driven access to Washington, DC internship opportunities, and its environmental studies strength tied to the Potomac watershed has made Shepherd a distinctive choice among West Virginia's public universities.
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