Potomac State College of West Virginia University

Potomac State College of West Virginia University is a two-year junior school partnered as a division of West Virginia University. West Virginia's lone private junior school, it is situated in Keyser, around 90 miles 140 km far from WVU's principle grounds in Morgantown, West Virginia. Potomac State acts to a great extent as a feeder for the WVU primary grounds, conceding partner's degrees while permitting different understudies to start the initial two years of their school examines before exchanging to the principle grounds.

The school was established in 1901 as the sub-university Keyser Preparatory Branch of West Virginia University. It was soon renamed as the West Virginia Preparatory School. In the end, it developed into a full junior school, taking understudies from the neighborhood likewise understudies from somewhere else in the state who did not meet the full affirmation prerequisites for the fundamental grounds. Potomac State has since to a great extent moved out of its therapeutic part, offering many courses that straightforwardly exchange to the primary grounds with fractional credit.

After decades as a local grounds of West Virginia University, Potomac State turned into a semi-incorporated division of the University on July 1, 2005.Many non-scholarly administrations at Potomac State have now gone under the control of fundamental grounds.

Potomac State College games groups are known as the Catamounts,named after the cougar and mountain lions that once meandered the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. Potomac State is an individual from the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference, super-substance of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association PCAA, in organization with the National Junior College Athletic Association NJCAA, and contends with other two-year schools all through the eastern United States. In October 2013, Catamounts Soccer was positioned ninth in NJCAA Division III. Catamounts Baseball contended in the NJCAA Division I World Series as the 2011 Eastern District Champions.In 2013, the baseball group completed the season positioned nineteenth in Division I.In March 2014, Catamounts Men's Basketball won their provincial title, which qualified them for the 16 group NJCAA Division II National Championship Tournament. The Cats won a diversion before being wiped out.