Living in D.C.
Students at The George Washington University live at the virtual pulse-point of world affairs – Washington, D.C. It’s a high-energy city where people from across the country and around the world live and work side by side, taking care of local, national and global business. It's an exhilarating mix of cultures that's still quintessentially American.
Our Campus Locations
GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus is just blocks from the White House in the heart of Washington. Mount Vernon Campus is located in the prestigious Foxhall neighborhood surrounded by international embassies. Both campuses are also close to noted museums, inspiring monuments and rich multicultural attractions.
City of Neighborhoods
While very cosmopolitan, Washington is an amalgamation of small, closely knit communities. Each culturally diverse neighborhood has its own distinctive architecture, style, culture and cuisine where GW students can indulge their appetites, exercise their creativity and learn by exploring. D.C.'s neighborhoods have much to offer, from the U Street Corridor's music clubs to Foggy Bottom's international institutions, and from Adams Morgan's variety of ethnic foods to downtown's shopping and sports venues.
The nature-minded can explore the many regional parks and green spaces, from Rock Creek Park and the National Arboretum, to the C & O Canal and the Potomac River parks, to Shenandoah National Park in the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains, host to the historic Appalachian Trail.
Culture and Recreation
Arts and cultural opportunities await our students at the Smithsonian’s museums, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and many community-based galleries, theaters, clubs and cinemas which regularly feature world and city premieres of works in the fine, performing and cinema arts.
Nearby Embassy Row and the headquarters of international agencies and institutions lend a global perspective to the GW experience
And, best of all, it is all accessible by Metrorail, Metrobus, bike or on foot.
Explore our City: Lincoln Memorial
Join the other "sand crabs" at the ultimate weekend outdoor volleyball competition near the Lincoln Memorial.
Explore our City: Dumbarton Oaks
Walk through the Beatrix Farrand designed gardens at Dumbarton Oaks.
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.