Westbrook University - (800) 447-6496

A distance-education pioneer, cultivating knowledgeable, ethical, skillful and compassionate healthcare and allied professionals

Westbrook University is a small American private nonsectarian nonprofit distance-education university located in Weirton, West Virginia, providing undergraduate and postgraduate professional degrees in a variety of healthcare science fields to students internationally.

Westbrook provides nonresidential healthcare-science professional higher education to nontraditional tertiary education students from varied cultural, personal and professional backgrounds and with diverse perspectives. The university's academic program is learner centered and flexible to accommodate mature adult students who may also have family, work and community responsibilities. Individual degree plans are supported by faculty mentors. All programs seek to cultivate knowledgeable, ethical, skillful and compassionate healthcare and allied health professionals.

Westbrook offers eight undergraduate and 18 graduate degree programs in psychology and mental health counseling, addiction counseling, holistic nursing, nutrition, naturopathy and integrative medicine. The program leading to a doctorate in integrative medicine is open only to physicians, chiropractors and other primary-, secondary- or tertiary-care health-professional specialists seeking to expand their knowledge and expertise. Westbrook also offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Naturopathy degrees.

The university may recognize some prior learning, allowing students to earn course credit, after rigorously assessing the students' academic and professional experiences against a given set of standards, competencies or learning outcomes.

While the university features a flexible curriculum, it requires undergraduate students to complete a liberal-arts program to develop intellectual literacy, critical thinking and communication skills. This core curriculum includes English, mathematics, humanities, fine arts, social sciences, behavioral sciences and laboratory sciences.

Undergraduate and graduate students may design customized and specific courses of study to suit their educational, professional or clinical objectives with integrated or interdisciplinary individualized degree programs generally sponsored by two or more university departments.

Westbrook also offers diploma programs in homeopathy, natural health and other complementary and alternative medicine practices.

The institution additionally provides continuing education units for approved continuing education and professional training programs required for licensed or certified healthcare practitioners and allied health professionals to maintain their credentials.

The university's faculty includes health professionals as well as academics.

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