West Virginia University Institute of Technology
West Virginia University Institute of Technology is a four-year college located in Montgomery, West Virginia. It is the largest regional campus of West Virginia University and is separately accredited from the main campus of WVU in Morgantown.
The school was founded at the sub-college level Montgomery Preparatory School of WVU in 1895. 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 degrees in engineering in 1952.
The school added a community college in 1966 and it began to grant the master's degree in engineering in 1978.
In 1996 the school was re-merged back into West Virginia University under its current name. In January of 2006 it was announced that the engineering programs at the school will be moved to South Charleston, West Virginia on land donated by the Dow Chemical company near the Marshall University Graduate College, leaving the main campus with programs in other subjects only. The timetable of the move is unknown at this time. The school also offers extension courses in engineering on the main campus of Marshall University in Huntington. The school of engineering will become a part of the main West Virginia University engineering school and give up its separate status. However, this plan may now be changing, and the Engineering College will stay put on the Montgomery campus.
Locals generally call the school WVU Tech, West Virginia Tech, or simply Tech. Care should be taken not to confuse it with the much larger Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech.
The school's athletic teams are known as the Golden Bears, and compete in the NCAA Division II West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. After giving up its engineering program, the school announced it would withdraw from the WVIAC and return to the NAIA.
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