GW offers premium residential options for freshmen and continuing students. Our 48 distinctive residential options range from traditional coed halls and apartment-style residence halls with private bathrooms to Scholars' Village townhouses for upper classmen and independent-living high-rises. Freshmen and sophomores are required to live in university housing, and GW also provides on-campus options for students who want to take advantage of the residence hall system for their entire undergraduate career. Our commitment to provide a complete undergraduate educational experience includes residence hall programming for students in university-sponsored housing. The interest-based housing system allows residents to create living and learning arrangements that best serve their extracurricular interests.

The Center for Student Engagement (CSE) encourages the total development of our students, including attention to personal, academic, social and pre-professional stages of growth. Community-living environments and co-curricular initiatives have been designed to promote student growth and development.

In addition to a year-specific curriculum, CSE provides opportunities for residents to be actively engaged within their house community. This is made possible through Living and Learning Cohorts, the Residential Advisory Council and the F Street Corridor Commission.

CSE provides a four-year experience that has been recognized nationally by the American College Personnel Association for outstanding innovation in residence life. In partnership with other university offices, CSE meets the distinct needs of students as they evolve into mature citizens in a responsible community.

CSE ensure that residents are guided by older, more experienced students throughout all four years. Our student, professional, and academic staff members work to empower student residents in their own personal development, their experience at GW, and their role within their residential community. Because students in each house, and in each year, have specific needs, the role of CSE staff varies with every group of residents.

GW Alexandria Graduate Education Center

Street Entrance: 413 John Carlyle Street
Garage Entrance: 1925 Ballenger Avenue, Suite 250, Alexandria, VA 22314
Alexandria, VA
703-299-0297

Directions by Car

From I-395 North/South:

• East on Duke Street approximately 3 miles.
• Turn right at the light on to John Carlyle Street and go to the end of the circle.
• Continue on John Carlyle Street and turn right on to Ballenger Avenue.

From I-495:

• Exit 2B to Telegraph Road North.
• Turn right onto Duke Street (Route 236 East).
• Turn right at the light on to John Carlyle Street and go to the end of the circle.
• Continue on John Carlyle Street and turn right on to Ballenger Avenue.

From George Washington Parkway North/South:

• West on Duke Street approximately 1/2 mile.
• Turn left at the light on to John Carlyle Street and go to the end of the circle.
• Continue on John Carlyle Street and turn right on to Ballenger Avenue.

Street Entrance

GW's street entrance faces the circle. Take the elevator up to the 2nd floor. To map our location enter this address into your search: 413 John Carlyle Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.

There is 2-hour metered parking until 5 pm around the circle and on adjacent streets, and a parking garage under the building. Street parking after 5 pm is free.

Parking Garage Entrance:

Continue on John Carlyle Street past the circle to Ballenger Avenue. Turn right on to Ballenger Avenue, then right at 1925 Ballenger Avenue into the garage. Follow the signs to Retail Elevator and take it up to the 2nd floor.

Parking Rates: $3 / hour; $10 / all day; $5 / evening; $125 / month.

Metro

The Center is located approximately 4 blocks from the King Street Metro Station, accessible by the Blue and Yellow lines.

Exit the metro to Diagonal Road and turn right. Walk to Duke Street and turn left (east) at the light. Turn right on to John Carlyle Street at the next light. Walk to the end of the circle. The Center entrance faces the circle. Take the elevator to the 2nd floor.

GW Graduate Education Center, Arlington

950 N Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22203
703-248-6200

Driving Directions

From Washington D.C. on U.S. 50:

Cross the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, proceed west on U.S. 50 (Arlington Blvd.) to 10th Street. Continue onto 10th Street North.Turn left onto N. Fairfax Drive, and then left onto N. Glebe Road. The building will be on your right.

From the West on U.S. 50:

Proceed east on U.S. 50 to Glebe Road. Turn left (north) on Glebe Road and then bear right at Quincy Street. Turn left onto N. Fairfax Drive, and then left onto N. Glebe Road. The building will be on your right.

From the West on I-66:

Take exit 71 to N. Fairfax Drive (toward VA-120/Glebe Road). Turn right onto N. Glebe Road. The building will be on your right.

From I-395 North/South:

Take exit 8A (the first Washington Blvd. exit). Go north on Washington Blvd. for approximately 2 miles. Turn left onto 10th Street.Turn left onto N. Fairfax Drive, and then left onto N. Glebe Road. The building will be on your right.

Directions By Metro

Take the Orange Line one stop West of our old stop at Virginia Square. As you exit the top of the escalators at street level, turn to you right. Walk three blocks on Fairfax Drive to the building on the opposite side of North Glebe Road.

Parking

The Building Garage

The Building's garage is open from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. seven days a week. A special GW rate $4 after 3pm Monday - Friday and all day on Saturday.

Ballston Public Parking Garage

Located at 665 N. Glebe Road and4238 Wilson Boulevard, the Ballston Public Parking Garage is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Cost is $1 after 6 p.m., on weekends or under three hours.

Metered Street Parking

Short-term metered parking is $1 per hour for a four hour maximum time limit from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday - Sataturday. Parking is after 6 p.m., on Sundays and on holidays.

At The George Washington University, our ultimate goal is to be the preeminent research university in the nation’s capital, with unparalleled resources for our students, our neighbors, the nation and the world. We are seizing new opportunities to enhance our academic, research and service programs, focusing particularly on six strategic initiatives:

Sustainability

The Office of Sustainability provides a strategic home for sustainability initiatives at the George Washington University that are implemented in partnership with stakeholders across the organization. The George Washington University seeks to engage the world by exploring the important issues of our time including policy and governance for sustainability with a vision to create resource systems that are healthy and thriving for all. Through efforts underway in operations, teaching, research, and outreach, the university is committed to being a model of sustainability.

Affordability

Across the country, parents are worried about paying for college. To address this growing concern, GW instituted a five-year fixed tuition and guaranteed financial aid program. It ensures that students’ tuition will remain stable for up to five years and need-based and merit-based institutional grants will remain at least at the levels awarded at the time of the student’s initial enrollment. We also are committed to moderating any increases in line with inflation.

For families with multiple children at the University, we offer the GW Family Grant, providing a 50 percent discount.

Community

Between their first steps onto campus and the moment they throw their graduation caps in the air, students become part of a lifelong and worldwide GW community. After commencement, they remain an important part of who we are. To strengthen our relationship with 225,000 alumni around the world, GW’s Alumni Association focuses its efforts on:

• Engaging alumni to create lifelong interactions with fellow graduates, current students and GW;
• Providing an outlet for alumni to voice their opinion with the University;
• Building a culture of philanthropy to support current and future generations of GW students and alumni.

Innovation

President Knapp has laid out an ambitious but achievable goal to increase GW's investment in academic learning, research, and the student experience by $60 million per year, through the Innovation Task Force. The plan is to build up to that $60 million level over the course of the next five years. This funding will come from three components: raising new funds from philanthropic sources; increasing the productivity of our research and instructional programs; and finding savings in our business processes. In other words, we will increase the rate of fundraising and the efficiency and productivity of our programs until, at the end of five years, we have reached the level of an additional $60 million per year (i.e., from that point onward) to invest in our priorities.

Service & Engagement

The Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service aims to integrate civic engagement into George Washington University’s educational work. We focus GW’s resources to meet community needs beyond the campus, promote active citizenship in a diverse democracy, and enhance teaching, learning and scholarship at GW.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Office of Diversity and our campus has embraced an ambitious agenda to move us forward in advancing our goals to become a more diverse and inclusive community. By incorporating a broad range of human experiences and a rich variety of human perspectives, we enlarge our capacity for learning, enrich the quality and texture of campus life, and better prepare for life and leadership in a pluralistic society.