Located in West Chester, PA, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (WCU) is the fourth largest university in the Philadelphia region. It is one of the 14 universities that comprise Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.

WCU is organized into five Colleges: Arts and Sciences; Business and Public Affairs; Education; Health Sciences; and Visual and Performing Arts. We currently offer more than 80 undergraduate and 70 master’s degree programs. Students are drawn primarily from Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. In total, students come from 26 different states and 64 different countries.

West Chester University has over 15,400 degree seeking students: 2,114 graduate and 13,297 undergraduate. (Fall 2012).

It is the first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference university to win two NCAA championships, Baseball and women's Field Hockey, in the same academic year.

West Chester University was recently named among the best regional universities in the north by U.S. News and World report, moving up 14 places this year to number 70.