The student population at West Virginia Northern Community College has grown consistently, at times having double digit enrollment growth, since the year 2000. Northern, a public, comprehensive community college with campus locations in Wheeling, Weirton, and New Martinsville, was created on May 9, 1972, and has grown into the largest institution of higher education in the Upper Ohio Valley. WVNCC currently is undergoing a years-long expansion and remodeling effort at all three campuses.