2019, and the university has been ranked the best return-on-investment in the state of West Virginia.
=== Former Montgomery campus ===
The "Old Main" building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The Neal D. Baisi Athletic Center was completed in 1968 and was home to the Golden Bears' basketball teams.
On April 21, 2017, it was announced that the buildings on the Fayette County side of the Montgomery campus would be lease-purchased by KVC Health Systems, a foster care and adoption services provider, for conversion into a proposed "transitional college for persons aging out of foster care", while the buildings on the Kanawha County side would be transferred to BridgeValley Community & Technical College. The only exceptions are the "Tech Marina" (a boat dock) and the David S. Long Alumni Center, which were transferred to the city of Montgomery, and the HiRise Residence Hall, which was demolished on June 4, 2017. However, the KVC effort was abandoned in 2019 and the buildings are currently …
