WVU Cutting Budget, Plans to Trim Petroleum & NatGas Engr Program

West Virginia University (WVU), the Mountain State's public research university, is located in Morgantown, WV. Enrollment at all of WVU's campuses at one point almost touched 30,000 students. Big university--important university. WVU has a major Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering program as part of the school's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. However, WVU has a budget problem. Enrollment has been down some 5,000 students from 2014. That's 5,000 fewer students paying tuition, resulting in a $45 million budget shortfall. So the school is cutting faculty and staff, and in some cases, eliminating programs like creative writing and foreign language studies.

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