Mountain State University

Mountain State University
TypePrivate university
Active1933 (1933) 
2012 (2012)
PresidentRichard E. Sours
Students8,200
Location, ,
United States
ColorsBlue and Silver    
MascotCougar
Websitewww.mountainstate.edu

Mountain State University (MSU) was a private university in Beckley, West Virginia. It closed in 2013. It was formerly named Beckley College and then The College of West Virginia.

Its Beckley campus is now the campus of West Virginia University Institute of Technology. Its other campus in Martinsburg, West Virginia was sold to a private developer.