

West Virginia University Rankings 2026
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- WVU US News & World Report Ranking 2026
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West Virginia University is a prominent name among international students interested in pursuing their studies from USA. The university also is popular for being ranked by the top bodies for it national as well as global performance. According to latest rankings rolled out by Shiksha Popularity Ranking for the year 2025, West Virginia University secures a rank #163, among all colleges and universities in USA, while also attaining a global rank #594.
QS, another popular global ranking body, ranks the university at #1001, in its 2026 rankings. The overall ranking of the institute has remained unchanged from 2025. Further, as per rankings given by US News and World Report for the Global Universities category 667, its standing dropped to #667 from #606 in 2024.
Shiksha Popularity World Ranking is a newly launched ranking algorithm, which collates and aggregates university and course rankings available publicly from prominent ranking publishers and converts them into a form that is easy to consume. This allows Indian students to better evaluate institutions and their courses.
The table below highlights the three-year ranking trends of West Virginia University:
Ranking Body | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
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QS | Not Ranked | 801 | 1001 | 1001 |
US News | 537 | 606 | 667 | Not Ranked |
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#1001WVUWest Virginia University Course Ranking
West Virginia University offers a wide range of future-ready courses from a variety of fields of study such as Engineering, Business and Management Studies, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences and Science. The university courses are acknowledged globally, by prominent ranking publications, with Shiksha Popularity World Ranking its Law courses at #342 in 2025. Shiksha Popularity Ranking has declined when compared with 2024 rank of #325.
Global ranking body Shiksha Popularity World Ranking also ranks its Medicine & Health Sciences courses. It has ranked West Virginia University Medicine & Health Sciences courses at #296 globally in 2025. Additionally, its QS - Medicine Rankings programs offered are also quite popular in the country and globally as these are ranked at #701 by QS in 2025.
According to Shiksha Popularity Rankings, here’s how some of the courses are ranked:
Course Category | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Law | #325 | #325 | #342 |
Medicine & Health Sciences | #189 | #255 | #296 |
Science | #345 | #408 | #406 |
Humanities & Social Sciences | #354 | #294 | #303 |

WVUUS News & World Report Ranking 2026
Ranked by | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
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Global Universities | 606 | 667 | – / – |
National University | 216 | 220 | 222 |
Aerospace Engineering PG | 55 | 56 | – / – |
Best Graduate Law Schools | 111 | 117 | – / – |
Best Graduate Medical Schools | 87 | – / – | – / – |
Best Graduate Nursing Schools | 96 | – / – | – / – |
Biomedical Engineering PG | 112 | 124 | – / – |
Chemical Engineering PG | 105 | 112 | – / – |
Civil Engineering PG | 97 | 123 | – / – |
Computer Engineering PG | 112 | 109 | – / – |
Electrical Engineering PG | 113 | 138 | – / – |
Graduate Business School | 111 | – / – | – / – |
Mechanical Engineering PG | 106 | 91 | – / – |
UG Business | 159 | 127 | 150 |

WVUQS Ranking 2026
Ranked by | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
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World University | 801 | 1001 | 1001 |
Medicine | 601 | 701 | – / – |
Physics and Astronomy | 501 | 601 | – / – |

WVUARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Universities | 501 | 501 | 501 |
Physics | 201 | 201 | – / – |
Political Sciences | 201 | 301 | – / – |
Sociology | – / – | 151 | – / – |
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