The University's mission is to educate students for life, for leadership and for service with and among others, and its affordable programs unite the Jesuit tradition of intellectual excellence with the best of advanced technology to help students develop a life of success, service and significance.

• Wheeling Jesuit is the first and only Catholic institute of higher education in West Virginia, and offers a spiritually welcoming environment for all students.
  
  
• The University is youngest of the nation's 28 Jesuit colleges and universities.
  
  
• Wheeling Jesuit is a co-educational campus offering academic programs grounded in the liberal arts.
  
  
• U.S. News & World Report ranks Wheeling Jesuit 18th in the "Best Master's Universities in the South," the highest ranked institution in West Virginia for eleven consecutive years.
  
  
• The Templeton Guide: Colleges that Encourage Character Development lists the University as an exemplary college program that inspires students to lead ethical and civic-minded lives.
  
  
• Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges, designed to aid counselors, parents and children with their college search, praises the academic quality of the University's Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, English, History, Math, Nursing, Philosophy, Psychology, and Religious Studies programs.
    
• Money magazine recently listed Wheeling as an “extraordinarily livable city,” and Sperling's BestPlaces lists the area in the top three safest cities of its size in the country.
  
  
• The University offers more than 30 undergraduate programs of study and six graduate programs. 
  
  
• The Wheeling Jesuit student-to-faculty ratio of 14 to 1 means small, personalized classes, engaging discussions, and opportunities for hands-on research.
  
          
• Each year, numerous student organizations provide more than 350 activities for students. Organizations include student government, service organizations, sports clubs, special interest groups and media organizations.
  
  
• Wheeling Jesuit offers more than 30 student-run clubs and activities. They range from clubs in most subject areas to service activities, from social and civic activities to student government, from environmental involvement to social justice and minority affairs.
  
  
• Wheeling Jesuit has 16 men's and women's teams, most of which compete in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and NCAA Division II.
  
  
• The athletic teams have won more than 46 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) titles, fielding 40 Academic All-Americans and receiving 30 WVIAC Coach of the Year awards.
  
  
• Nearly 30 percent of the most recent graduating class enrolled in graduate schools or professional programs, and many received full-scholarships.
  
  
• Graduates, over the past decade, have achieved:
  • 100 percent acceptance into physical therapy graduate programs.
  • 100 percent pass rate on the licensing exam for nursing.
  • 100 percent pass rate on the nuclear medicine licensing exam.
  • 100 percent pass rate on the respiratory therapy exam.
  • 100 percent acceptance rate into top law schools.
  
  
• The 65-acre campus located in Wheeling, W.Va., includes 15 modern buildings, multi-million dollar Acker Science Center, and residence halls, and a modern recreation and athletic facility that includes a soccer/track and field complex.
   
• Our new $10-million Acker Science Center contains modern teaching resources and laboratories, providing students with the means to undertake cutting-edge research projects.
  
  
• In the Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) and the Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational Technologies (CET), both located on campus, you will find internships and hands-on opportunities to study current global trends in business, technology, and education.
  
  
• The campus is home to NASA's premier educational research program, The Classroom of the Future.
  
  
• The Challenger Learning Center simulates space missions to teach science and math to more than 13,000 elementary and high school students on the campus each year.
  
  
• The Library’s digital resources include: a web-based catalog; 52 databases accessing full-text articles, abstracts and indexes; and 69,000 e-books.
  
  
• Library print collections include 130,000 volumes and 362 journal subscriptions, supplemented by 66 microform units. Customized searches, expedited document delivery and other knowledge management and instruction services are provided by reference librarians.