WVU, Concord and other West Virginia design schools offer degree programs ranging from architecture to sculpture. Design students may earn a degree in graphic design, interior design, web design, drawing, illustration, multimedia and film, ceramics, jewelry making, photography, printmaking, metalsmithing, and painting. The costs for these programs vary by school, but on average, design students can expect to shell out around $4,377 per academic year at a public school $15,296 per academic year at a private school.

Fortunately, tuition rates are lower than the national average. The average tuition for public four-year schools across the nation is $5,950. For private schools, students pay $21,588 on average. West Virginia students may pay even less by completing all or part of the degree program online. Online students save a significant amount of money each year by eliminating room and board costs as well as transportation. Room and board costs average around $7,049 per academic year.

To get started on a design career, you should select a school. If you would like to explore options outside of the top schools listed above, you can browse through listings by visiting college directories or college ranking websites such as U.S. News & World Report or Design-schools.us. After you have selected several options, be sure to visit the school’s official website to begin the application process. Most directories and ranking websites feature links to each school’s official website.

Clay Center has a number of spaces that you can rent out for your wedding. Some of them are beautiful large spaces great for big weddings — like the Benedum Grand Lobby and the Clark Performance Terrace. There are also smaller spaces for more intimate weddings, such as the Intermezzo Cafe and the Sculpture Garden. The Ramada Charleston has a Conference Center with close to 12,150 square feet of space — wide, expansive, and impressive for wedding parties of more than three hundred guests. The Center also has adjoining meeting rooms that you can utilize as green rooms for the wedding party and the wedding organizers. The Ramada also offers delicious catered meals to fit every budget, and you can also rely on the well-trained professional staff to help pull your wedding off without a hitch.

The forested lands in West Virginia are wonderful for hiking, cycling and camping while metropolitan cities and towns offer cultural events, fine dining, shopping and nightlife activities. Throughout the state, artisans and artists have found a home where they can pursue their crafts and fine arts in a restful atmosphere and breathtaking environment.

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West Virginia is abundant in natural resources, being primarily known as a major producer of coal since the 1800s—in fact, it’s the number two coal-producing state in the U.S. *

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Last year, U.S. Foodservice, one of the country’s largest food distributors, jumped at the chance to board the “good-food” bandwagon and burnish its reputation. When celebrity chef Jamie Oliver came to town, it welcomed him—and the cameras—into its warehouses and made clear it could provide fresh, healthy foods at prices the local school system could afford. Then, the company went one step further, offering one year of free food and cleaning supplies worth up to $25,000 to Huntington’s Kitchen, the cooking school that Oliver established.

“The health and success of the communities where we operate is essential to our company,” Mark Eggerding, senior vice president of U.S. Foodservice, declared at the time.

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Courses / Programs:
- Business Administration
- Secondary Education
- Elementary Education
- Biology, General
- Advertising & Graphic Design
- Psychology, General
- Accounting
- Advertising & Graphic Design
- Athletic Training
- Broadcasting & Journalism
- Computer Science
- English / Literature
- Finance
- Health Care
- Music
- Pre-law
- Management
- Pre-med
- Psychology
- Recreation & Tourism Management
- Social Work
- Sociology
- Teacher Education

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The Houses
Thanks to limited building lots, subdivision development never took place here. But as the population ages and downsizes, it is easier to find 18th-, 19th-, and early-20th-century houses starting around $150,000. Some of the earliest structures were destroyed during the Civil War, but there are Federal houses from the 1830s still standing in “Upper Town,” alongside Queen Annes from the late 1800s.

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So how about when we are thrown into unfavorable situations where those same vital resources are not at our fingertips? When you don’t have an attending running the code or a respiratory therapist there to intubate in seconds. When you don’t have code drugs to push when you lose a pulse and the only faces you see around you are those staring in horror because they’ve never seen a person down in their lives. We are all comfortable with our CPR skills on dummies because we’ve practiced countless times. And many of us may be comfortable with our CPR skills on actual humans because we’ve been in countless codes in the hospital. But how many of us, aside from EMS and transport team folks, are comfortable with the idea of resuscitating an individual in a public setting, in a house, in a park, on a plane, in a restaurant, or on the street?

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Charleston attractions include Capital Complex, situated along the edge of the beautiful Kanawha River. Here locals and visitors enjoy leisurely strolls along the water in the warm months as well as many city events and activities. Many visitors enjoy tours through the West Virginia Capitol Building Monday through Friday with local guides. The Science Museum and Cultural Center, which presents many live performances, are also both popular attractions often visited on a Charleston vacation. Charleston tourism thrives partly because the city acts much like a crossroads of West Virginia, between the Midwest and east and the south and north.

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Mining dominates West Virginia’s economy. Even with a federal court ruling that shut down four of the state’s largest mines because of environmental concerns, Moody’s Economy.com believes that the increasing demand for coal could attract significant investments into the state in the future.

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Tom Witt, professor of economics and director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at West Virginia University, said that even with the state’s economic volatility, he does not believe it is in a recession.

“We haven’t seen, in the short run, the budget shortfall that other states have had,” he said. Witt also said that, except in the eastern panhandle, West Virginia has not been as affected by the subprime mortgage crisis as have other parts of the country.

Witt believes the biggest concerns for the state include its aging work force and the number of college graduates choosing to leave the state after graduation.

“We have the oldest age of population of any state in the country,” he said, “and we face a pretty high proportion of people who have withdrawn from the labor force.”

Witt believes, however, that the state may finally be trying to capitalize on its higher-education system. To combat the loss of college graduates, the state provides $50 million to fund a new initiative called Bucks for Brains. Modeled on a program implemented in Kentucky, the fund provides incentives “to stimulate world-class research and development and to reap the related benefits of high-tech, high-wage industries.”

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