Campus Life at GW
The first thing to know is that GW is a great academic university with unmatched learning experiences. The second thing to know is that GW is a great place to live.
Our Foggy Bottom Campus sits on about 18 square blocks in the heart of one of the world's most exciting and livable cities. The University is integrated in every way – physically, socially, culturally and, even, emotionally – with life in Washington, D.C.
Low-rise brick and brownstone buildings line the leafy streets of our historic Foggy Bottom Campus. Green, open spaces are tucked among the larger University buildings. The Mount Vernon Campus, meanwhile, sits on 23 wooded acres in a quiet, polished residential neighborhood.
Students are deeply involved in the life of the community, as well as in the great national and international issues of the day. They are engaged in community service, participate in the arts and contribute to hundreds of special interest organizations – from politics to rocketry. As a student, your social life can be as busy as you choose. Or you can spend endless quiet hours in our great libraries.
The George Washington University has a front row seat on the city – and the world. National and global leaders from government, industry and the arts participate in our high-profile events. Celebrated entertainers not only perform at Lisner Auditorium and other GW venues but they come to the University to support our students’ causes.
Underpinning this academic and creative social activity is an extensive support system. That support ensures that GW students enjoy some of the best housing of any school in the nation as well as dynamic and affordable places to meet, eat and socialize. It gives students access to facilities for health care and fitness. It guarantees effective safety and security measures. And it provides for administrators and staff who live to make things run smoothly.
At GW, campus life is good.
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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.