Westbrook University

Westbrook University is a small, non-profit, distance-education specialty university located in Weirton, West Virginia, United States (35 miles west of Pittsburgh), providing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees to students from around the world. Founded in 1986, the university developed an academic reputation for combining innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly personal and collaborative environment that transcends traditional academic BOUNDARIES.

Specializing in healthcare and alternative medicine but also offering general education to undergraduates to fulfill curriculum distribution requirements, the university concentrates its academic specialties in the areas of psychology and mental health counseling, rehabilitation counseling, holistic nursing, nutrition, naturopathy and integrative medicine. The undergraduate general-education requirements include English, mathematics, laboratory sciences, humanities, fine arts, social sciences and behavioral sciences. Students may design customized and specific courses of study to suit their educational and professional objectives, with the integrated or interdisciplinary degrees GeneRally sponsored by two or more university departments.

Westbrook also offers diploma programs in homeopathy, natural health and other areas of specialization. It additionally provides continuing education unit credit hours for approved continuing education programs required for licensed or registered professionals to maintain their license or registration.

The university's faculty include professionals as well as academics.