Marshall University

Marshall University is a public university in Huntington, West Virginia. It opened in 1837 as Marshall Academy, named for Chief Justice John Marshall, and became a university in 1961. It is the state's second-largest public university and a regional research institution with a medical school. The 1970 crash of the university's football team remains part of campus memory and memorials.

Colleges include arts and media, business, education and professional development, engineering and computer sciences, health professions, liberal arts, and science, together with the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy. Graduate students are drawn to medicine, pharmacy, education, forensic science, and engineering. Clinical training is tied to Cabell Huntington Hospital and other Huntington health systems.

Enrolment is about 12,000 students, including several thousand in graduate and professional programs. International students are a small share of the total. Faculty number about 700. Alumni include software executive Brad D. Smith, quarterback Chad Pennington, and actress Conchata Ferrell.

The university awards master's degrees, the M.D., the Pharm.D., and research and professional doctorates. Medical and pharmacy study is coursework and rotation based; other doctorates combine seminars with supervised research. The calendar is a semester system. Graduate assistantships and medical-school aid are the main funding routes. Huntington is a river city on the Ohio, and graduate life is campus-centered.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Marshall University lists 1 master's program, in operations research & management science.