Apply for Admission
Admissions requirements and criteria vary by school and program, and the processing of your application and admissions decisions are handled within the individual school. Throughout the process, if you have any questions regarding your application, admission requirements, or timelines, please contact the admissions office for the program to which you are applying. Click here for a complete list of admissions requirements by program.
A common application process is used by the following schools.
- College of Professional Studies (including Graduate School of Political Management)
- Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (including School of Media and Public Affairs and Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration
- Elliott School of International Affairs
- Graduate School of Education and Human Development
- School of Business
- School of Engineering and Applied Science
If you are interested in applying to a program in one of the above schools, please follow the step-by-step process. Applications to these programs are submitted through our Graduate Application Center. This system maintains your confidentiality through the assignment of a user name, allows you to complete the application at your convenience, and also enables you to review the status of your application as it goes through the review and decision process.
The programs listed below have a separate admissions process. Please click through to their Web sites for details.
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
School of Public Health and Health Services
The George Washington University Law School
The GW Experience
Students
An Incubator for Ideas
GW student entrepreneurs may apply for spots in entrepreneurship incubator.
A Home Away from Home
Twins study medicine and public health at George Washington.
Student Co-Produces New Album
George Washington student José Curbelo helped produce an album of northern Uruguayan music for Smithsonian Folkways.
A Call to Service
GW students traveled to Guatemala, Honduras, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico as part of the fourth annual Alternative Winter Break program.
Faculty
Teaching Campaigning in Cairo
GSPM professors teach practical skills to emerging politicians in Egypt.
South African Youth Perform at GW
Latest collaboration between Professor of Theatre Leslie Jacobson and the Bokamoso Youth Centre premieres Friday.
A Life-Changing Course
Today’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
Medical Alumni Can ‘Adopt a Doc’
New scholarship program enables graduates to put a face and name to donations.
GW Alumni, Graduate Student Win Fulbrights
Fifteen alumni and one doctoral student will conduct research around the globe with 2011-12 Fulbrights.
Furry Friend Gets Kids Excited About Learning
George Washington alumna helped create a curriculum for elementary school students centered on the dog who used to serve as the postal service’s mascot.