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WVU Health Sciences: Start Here. Go Anywhere.

Whether you’re driven to care for others, uncover the causes of disease or explore data that shapes public health—your path begins here. With five schools and world-class centers and institutes, WVU Health Sciences offers immersive, hands-on learning and a community that helps you grow into the health professional you’re meant to be.

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Your Future Health Career Starts at WVU Health Sciences

Your Future Health Career Starts at WVU Health Sciences

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West Virginia’s only premier, top-ranked academic medical center.

Here, students learn alongside clinicians and researchers working to improve health outcomes in West Virginia and beyond. Whether you’re pursuing a clinical or research career, you’ll graduate with real-world experience—and a network that helps you get hired.

WVU Health Sciences is the state’s only academic health center where education, research and care converge.

Here, students learn alongside clinicians and researchers working to improve health outcomes in West Virginia and beyond. Whether you’re pursuing a clinical or research career, you’ll graduate with real-world experience—and a network that helps you get hired.

See Where Our Students Go

Two individuals wearing augmented reality training headsets engage in an ultrasound medical training simulation. One holds a medical device while the other, dressed in scrubs, observes and assists.
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Nursing students practice a procedure on a simulation mannequin in a clinical training room, with one taking its blood pressure, while an instructor in a white coat observes and guides them.
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Work alongside world-class clinicians and scientists.

WVU is the state’s only designated R1: Doctoral University — the highest level of research activity — by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Work alongside inventive scientists and participate in groundbreaking research in an environment that encourages curiosity and fosters innovation in areas such as neuroscience, cancer, heart and vascular and population health to understand, treat and eliminate, vexing health problems.

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Explore learning across the state and train where you work.

With three Health Sciences Campuses – Morgantown, Charleston and Eastern – and countless collaborations across the state and region through our nationally ranked health system partner – WVU Medicine – you can get hands-on experience and unique training during rotations, residencies and other opportunities on the frontlines of modern care.

Your health career can improve the lives of West Virginians.

Our health priorities are tied to the needs of our citizens. WVU is the state’s only comprehensive academic health sciences center – a place where educators, health professionals and scientists work together to advance human health. We partner with other universities, hospitals and clinics, state and federal agencies, and health organizations across West Virginia to address the issues West Virginians are facing.

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Gain a lifelong connection to the Mountaineer family.

As a Mountaineer, you are part of the WVU community with a network that spans the globe. Our graduates are passionate, loyal and caring. They serve as ambassadors and advocates for health and education. They provide valuable resources, including time and money, to support the programs and initiatives that expand your opportunities as a student and improve the quality of life of those we serve.

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