Need-Based Assistance
We encourage students to apply for financial assistance. We realize families are concerned about financing the cost of a private education and as a result GW offers a generous program of need based aid as illustrated by these facts:
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GW budgets over $133 million for undergraduate financial assistance which includes scholarships, activity awards, and need-based awards.
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Almost 60% of GW's undergraduates receive financial assistance.
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Approximately 58% of those granted financial assistance receive a guaranteed scholarship or grant.
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The most recent average financial aid award for entering students was $22,522 (a combination of grants, loans, and work study).
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Of those students awarded need based assistance, over 90% receive grant aid.
Be sure to meet all financial aid application deadlines to be fully considered for need based assistance. Information about deadlines is available here.
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.