About GMU
Since it was founded in 1972, George Mason University has grown into a major educational force and earned a reputa tion as an innovative, entrepreneurial institution. Just minutes from Washington, D.C., George Mason has a growing and diverse student body and an exceptional faculty of enterprising scholars. At the center of the world's political, information, and comm unications networks, George Mason is the university needed by a region and a world driven by new social, economic, and technological realities.