Academic Life
Today’s students expect a high level of academic excellence and challenge. Meeting and exceeding these expectations is GW’s primary mission. We offer a broad range of academic programs. Students also have the option to create customized, multidisciplinary courses of study. To make sure that every student has access to the very best 21st century education, GW provides a wide selection of academic experiences, from lectures and seminars to hands-on learning in labs or through partnerships with organizations and museums in the Washington, D.C., region. With a world-class library and state-of-the art technology to back up the academic experience, our goal is to educate students to become citizens of our global society, ready to take on the challenges of this still new century.
Innovative Spaces
Modern classrooms and state-of-the-art conference facilities enhance the student experience.
Extensive Resources
Through the Washington Research Consortium, GW offers students a “virtual library” of more than 7.5 million volumes. The Gelman Library (shown here) supports general studies, while Himmelfarb and Burns support medicine and law, respectively.
Connected Classrooms
A student uses wireless Internet to download classroom notes, to check his calendar of student meetings and class schedules, to be active in online discussion groups and to review news, banking, daily events and activities.
International Study
Students participating in GW’s study abroad program enjoy a few moments of fun at the Palais d’Orsay in Paris.
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.