Campus Visits & Admissions Events
We are very interested in meeting with you and discussing the more than 200 graduate certificate, master's and doctoral programs offered at GW. We invite you to come to DC and take a campus tour, attend an information session or open house or meet with you at a Graduate Fair in your city as we travel through out the US and abroad.
Campus Visits
Tours of GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus are offered for prospective graduate and professional students three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at 12:30 pm.Led by a current graduate student, tours last approximately one hour and begin at Rice Hall, Suite 603, 2121 I St., NW, Washington, D.C. To register, please click here and select “Campus Tour” as the type of event.
If you would like to talk to a faculty or staff member during your visit, please contact the academic program directly. Click here for links to GW graduate and professional programs.
For large group tours (more than 15 people), please call 202-994-5984 for special arrangements.
Below is additional information to assist you with your visit to DC:
Information Sessions and Open Houses
GW offers a variety of events to help prospective students learn about GW and specific graduate programs and to talk to faculty, staff, and current students. To search for upcoming events by location, date or type of event, please click here.
GW in your Area
GW representatives travel throughout the US and the world. Visit us at one of the many upcoming events.
The GW Experience
Students
All in the Family
Greg and Heather Hachenburg talk about their undergraduate experience at GW, one of many sibling pairs to share in the Colonials legacy.
Creating Next Generation Leaders
GW program helps female students connect with leading women across a variety of fields and develop their roles as future women in leadership.
Where the City is a Classroom
Freshman volunteers experience life beyond Foggy Bottom...
Faculty
Fighting Neglected Diseases
GW professor works to eradicate diseases that affect the health, education and economic development of the world's poorest people.
Building the Super Computer
Pioneering lab puts GW at the forefront of high-speed computing and offers GW students unprecedented access to science and skills of the future.
Blast From the Past
Students map an ancient—and dramatic—eruption as part of a geological research program in the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains.
Alumni
Giving Back to the District of Columbia
D.C. public health director calls GW education the foundation of his career.
GW Opens Doors
A chance encounter with a GW alumna helped give one GW undergraduate, an aspiring broadcast journalist from Texas, his big break.
The Legend Lives On
The $2 million bequest commitment caps a lifetime of philanthropy and service to GW, establishing the Elyse B. and Donald R. Lehman Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Physics.