Campus Life at GW
The first thing to know is that GW is a great academic university with unmatched learning experiences. The second thing to know is that GW is a great place to live.
Our Foggy Bottom Campus sits on about 18 square blocks in the heart of one of the world's most exciting and livable cities. The University is integrated in every way – physically, socially, culturally and, even, emotionally – with life in Washington, D.C.
Low-rise brick and brownstone buildings line the leafy streets of our historic Foggy Bottom Campus. Green, open spaces are tucked among the larger University buildings. The Mount Vernon Campus, meanwhile, sits on 23 wooded acres in a quiet, polished residential neighborhood.
Students are deeply involved in the life of the community, as well as in the great national and international issues of the day. They are engaged in community service, participate in the arts and contribute to hundreds of special interest organizations – from politics to rocketry. As a student, your social life can be as busy as you choose. Or you can spend endless quiet hours in our great libraries.
The George Washington University has a front row seat on the city – and the world. National and global leaders from government, industry and the arts participate in our high-profile events. Celebrated entertainers not only perform at Lisner Auditorium and other GW venues but they come to the University to support our students’ causes.
Underpinning this academic and creative social activity is an extensive support system. That support ensures that GW students enjoy some of the best housing of any school in the nation as well as dynamic and affordable places to meet, eat and socialize. It gives students access to facilities for health care and fitness. It guarantees effective safety and security measures. And it provides for administrators and staff who live to make things run smoothly.
At GW, campus life is good.
The GW Experience
Students
GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.
A Home Away from HomeTwins study medicine and public health at George Washington.
Student Co-Produces New AlbumGeorge Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.
A Call to ServiceGW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.
Faculty
GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.
South African Youth Perform at GWLatest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.
A Life-Changing CourseToday’s reading by Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of “The Far Euphrates,” is the first of six from visiting artists in this spring’s Jewish Literature Live course.
Alumni
New scholarship program enables graduates to put a face and name to donations.
Fifteen alumni and one doctoral student will conduct research around the globe with 2011-12 Fulbrights.
Furry Friend Gets Kids Excited About LearningGeorge Washington alumna helped create a curriculum for elementary school students centered on the dog who used to serve as the postal service’s mascot.
