Southern Western Virginia Community and Technial College

Southern Western Virginia Community and Technical College is a public community college with its main campus in Mount Gay, West Virginia. The school was founded as the Logan and Williamson branches of Marshall College in 1960 and renamed as branches of Marshall University when their mother institution achieved university status in 1961. It had community college jurisdiction over Logan and Mingo counties. Southern provides both associate degrees in 2-year fields (career/technical programs) and the first two years of a four-year degree in the anticipation of a transfer to a bachelor's level institution. The service area of the school was expanded by 1995 legislation that divided West Virginia into eleven districts. Southern serves all of Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, and Wyoming counties. Approximately 1,100 students are enrolled. Less than half of them attend part-time. The school has no residential programs and no athletics.