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Founded in 1954, Wheeling Jesuit University is the newest of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and offers students a quality private education. With more than 30 undergraduate and six graduate programs, the University provides the foundation to succeed in career or graduate school. Many of the Catholic university's programs have 100 percent placement rates in graduate programs across the country. Since 1995, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Wheeling Jesuit University among the top institutions in its "Best Master's Universities in the South" category. Forbes ranked Wheeling Jesuit 180 in its August 2009 America's Best Colleges survey. Though a University, the institution is rooted in the 450 plus mission of Jesuit higher education to prepare students to live out their education with critical minds and compassionate hearts.

Image: Outside photo of Wheeling Jesuit UniversityLocated less than an hour south of Pittsburgh, in one of the nation's safest cities where public traditions of art, culture, and parks compliment a successful industrial heritage, Wheeling Jesuit provides an uncommon background for academic pursuits. The 65-acre campus is also home to the Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center, the Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational Technologies, the NASA sponsored Classroom of the Future, a Challenger Learning Center and the Clifford M. Lewis, S.J. Appalachian Institute. The campus is conveniently just off exit 2B of Interstate 70, yet the site offers a green campus with beautiful landscaping and first class fitness facilities. The university also has a site in Charleston, W.Va., where its Center for Professional & Graduate Studies serves adult students in the central part of the state for complete information, please visit www.wju.edu or call 800-624-6992.



Founded: 1954
Enrollment: 1,3670
2008-2009 Graduates: 323
Alumni: 9,485
Operating Budget: $33,300,000
Endowment: $16,600,000


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President
Mary Jo Habursky, Assistant

Wheeling Jesuit University
316 Washington Avenue
Wheeling, WV 26003
Phone: (304) 243-2233
Fax: (304) 243-4349
1-800-624-6992
http://www.wju.edu
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