United Career Institute was established in 2019 by West Virginia Junior College in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Pennsylvania campus was established to provide short-term career-focused training to meet the needs of southwestern Pennsylvanians and their employers. United Career Institute is a non-main campus of West Virginia Junior College – Morgantown, WV.
West Virginia Junior College (then called Morgantown Commercial College) was founded in 1922. Its original emphasis was basic office skills, such as typing, bookkeeping and business writing. Over the years, the College evolved to meet the changing needs of area employers and to broaden its reach. Today, the campuses offer a variety of short-term career-focused programs in the fields of health, business and technology.