About Marshall University

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Marshall University is a public research academic circles in Huntington, West Virginia. It was founded in 1837 and is named after John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States.

The university circles is currently composed of nine undergraduate colleges: Lewis College of Business (LCOB), College of Education and Professional Development (COE), College of Arts and Media (COAM), College of Health Professions (COHP), Honors College, College of Engineering and Computer Sciences (CECS), College of Liberal Arts (COLA), College of Science (COS), and University College; three graduate colleges, the general Graduate College, the School of Pharmacy, and the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine; and a regional center for cancer research, which has a national reputation for its programs in rural healthcare delivery. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne Counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county chair of Cabell County, and largest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area. A historic and energetic city of commerce and heavy industry, Huntington has benefited from its location upon the Ohio River at the mouth of the Guyandotte River. It is house to the Port of Huntington Tri-State, the second-busiest inland port in the United States.

Surrounded by extensive natural resources, the industrial sector is based in coal, oil, chemicals and steel, all of which withhold Huntington’s diversified economy. The city is a vital rail-to-river transfer dwindling for the marine transportation industry. Also, it is considered a scenic locale in the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. This location was chosen by Collis Potter Huntington as ideal for the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the predecessor of what would become CSX Transportation which still operates CSX Transportation-Huntington Division in the city to date.

The railroad founded Huntington as one of the nation’s first planned communities to advance the railroad and further transportation-related industries at the railway’s western terminus. The site, previously a growth of agricultural homesteads, developed quick after the railroad’s feat in 1871 and is eponymously named for the railroad company’s founder Collis Potter Huntington. The first identifiable permanent settlement, Holderby’s Landing, was founded in 1775 in the Colony of Virginia. With the exception of the neighborhoods of Westmoreland and Spring Valley, most of the city is in Cabell County.

As of the 2010 census, the metropolitan Place is the largest in West Virginia. It spans seven counties across three states, with a population of 365,419. Huntington is the second-largest city in West Virginia, with a population of 49,138 at the 2010 census. However, with the 2019 United States Census Estimate, the city’s population has declined to 45,110 and the population of the metropolitan statistical area declined to 349,485. This declining population trend has been ongoing for six decades as Huntington has lost exceeding 40,000 residents in that times frame.

The city is the house of Marshall University as well as the Huntington Museum of Art; the Mountain Health Arena; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Huntington District); the Collis P. Huntington Historical Society and Railroad Museum; Camden Park, one of the world’s oldest amusement parks; the headquarters of the CSX Transportation-Huntington Division, the largest isolation in the CSX network; the Special Metals Plant; and the Port of Huntington Tri-State, the largest river port in the United States.

The largest employers are Marshall University, Cabell Huntington Hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center, CSX Transportation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Amazon, DirecTV, and the City of Huntington.