Founded on the 450-year Jesuit tradition of academic excellence and service to others, Wheeling Jesuit University will provide you with outstanding educational offerings, cutting-edge research opportunities, and ways to have an influence in the community for the greater good of all. The entire Wheeling Jesuit community is working together to create a university where education is second to none, where research flourishes and students can make a difference in others' lives.
The Jesuit traditions of educational excellence and service to others guide all the programs at Wheeling Jesuit University. By integrating learning, research, and economic development with classical knowledge and Christian revelation, the University seeks to foster competence, creativity, and innovation throughout and beyond the campus community. Graduates of the University enter the world of work with socially responsible goals, a lifelong appetite for learning, and the desire to make our universe a better place.
To model the Jesuit concern for regional and global neighbors, the University welcomes people of all creeds, races, and nationalities to share in the intelligent pursuit of excellence. The University promotes close student-faculty contacts and encourages students to develop their full leadership potential. Through a grounding in the liberal arts and, above all, the example of Jesus Christ, the University endeavors to produce intelligent, moral leaders who will champion the Jesuit values of faith, peace, and justice. Wheeling Jesuit envisions a dynamic leadership role for the University in the lives of its students and the world at large.
In its faculty and students, its research and outreach, the University are national and international. Yet as the only Catholic institution of higher learning in West Virginia, Wheeling Jesuit also values its distinctive mission to the immediate area, educating local men and women and returning them to enrich their communities. Wheeling Jesuit University firmly believes its graduates will enter the professional world prepared to use their God-given talents not solely for personal fulfillment but as men and women in service to others.
Whether you are a high school senior, international student, transfer student, or looking at our professional and graduate programs, all of your questions will be answered here. Here you will find why WJU is the place for you. The unique environment at Wheeling Jesuit places you in the middle of a population driven to succeed and pursuing excellence. Surrounding yourself with others holding you to a higher standard and providing greater expectations is hard to find and critical to reaching your goals. Our graduates (90% in employment and graduate school within 12 months of graduation) directly reflect the environment that Wheeling Jesuit provides during your four years.
With students from over 26 different countries, Wheeling Jesuit is truly a global community. Diversity is always celebrated as students from all faiths, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds call our campus home. Our dedicated faculty will educate you to be a man or woman for others and prepare you for life, leadership, and service on our beautiful and safe campus.
Wheeling Jesuit's Graduate and Professional Programs are suited to meet people's needs with real lives and real responsibilities. A variety of programs are offered in Education, Nursing, and Business. Classes are offered online or in the evenings. WJU has been serving adult learners for over 30 years with a dedicated staff who understands your needs.
All students who attend Wheeling Jesuit University are invited to think - about themselves, their responsibilities to others, and our world, about ultimate concerns regarding the life of the mind and the spirit. What distinguishes the WJU Honors Program is how it rewards WJU's students with a record of exceptional academic achievement and an appetite for intellectual experience who want even more than their major. The liberal arts core curriculum already offers them.
All our Honors Program seminars are for credit but ungraded. Unlike other courses, the honors seminars are not taught from a single academic perspective but across the academic spectrum. The reward, quite literally, is the experience itself: an expanded and enriched intellectual engagement with one another and the world. In defiance of our increasingly grade-conscious culture, we offer students an oasis to take chances: to form questions and seek answers.
Involvement on campus is a hallmark of our students. You could be standing on stage in a production at Troy Theater or floating down whitewater rapids at one of the Adventure Society's outdoor odysseys. You might join Campus Ministry, play an instrument in the pep band, or end up auditioning for 'Jesuit Idol.' Maybe you will write a column for the Cardinal Connection, our student-run newspaper. Whatever it is that interests you, you will find an outlet on our campus.
Weekends at Wheeling Jesuit are full of excitement. The Ratt, our on-campus pub, hosts bands every Friday along with theme nights throughout the year. Our Campus Activities Board plans weekends year-round for students, including the annual Last Blast weekend, complete with inflatables, obstacle courses, rock climbing, concerts, and a highly competitive raft race down Wheeling Creek.
If you are looking for a great workout, the McDonough Center is not just a place for varsity athletes; it is a resource for all students. Consider it your own 107,000 square-foot health club. You can run laps on the indoor and outdoor tracks, play racquetball, pump iron, get in some cardio at the fitness center, swim laps in the pool, or shoot hoops in the gym.
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