Since our capital city's first days, people have traveled here for many reasons. They come to explore the past and to chart new futures. They come to ask questions and to seek expert answers. They come to start discourse and to remember in silence. They come to demand change and to be that change. They come to grow. They come to learn. They come to make history and join the ranks alongside many prominent GW alumni.
At the George Washington University (GW), #OnlyatGW is not just a hashtag—it is our way of life. Living and learning in the heart of D.C. provide our students opportunities and experiences unlike anywhere else. Inside the classroom, you will sit next to peers from all over the world and learn from faculty who are not only experts in their fields, but who also might be world-famous artists, policy-makers or dignitaries.
At GW, learning does not stop when class is over. It's the reason you are here and will be a part of everything you will do. You can use our resources to forge your path forward. You might find a dream internship at a non-profit or the White House, volunteer to better our city, run into government leaders on campus, or even study on the steps of monuments that tourists flock to. You will not only live and learn at the center of our nation's capital, but you will be a central part of it no matter your path.
Whether you want to build robots, study sea lions at the National Zoo, work with world-renowned artists, develop a digital strategy for a political campaign or study Shakespeare, you will be right at home in a GW classroom. Our study programs are as diverse as our Colonial community—from biomedical engineering to dance, political science to archaeology, you can find the program you have been searching for and use it to start doing what you always wanted to.
No matter your interest or situation in life, GW has a program for you. You can find more than 100 undergraduate programs and more than 230 graduate programs at the certificate, masters, and doctoral levels in our ten schools and colleges. You could study in the center of D.C., Virginia, at our Virginia Science and Technology campus, or one of our graduate education centers in Arlington or Alexandria. If these options do not work for you, you can study from home through one of our more than 100 online programs.
With more than 3,700 international students hailing from more than 130 countries, GW's community thrives on varied perspectives and experiences. In the classroom, students and faculty encourage each other to grow and expand their thinking beyond textbooks. Here you won't just read about current events and history—you'll enter discussions with classmates who have experienced them in their home country. We welcome you to share your culture and contribute new ideas about your passions, both the ones you know and those you can't wait to be exposed to at GW.
Our students come to GW for many of these same reasons. They come for passionate faculty, for diverse student groups, for Division I athletics, for once in a lifetime internships, and for inspiring service opportunities. GW, like many universities, provides all of this. But our students come for something else, as well. They don't just want to do a community service project. They want to meet, and then exceed, a service challenge from the First Lady of the United States. They don't just want to view slides of art. They want to debate masterpieces in the galleries of world-class museums or dance on the Kennedy Center stages.And they do not just want to take an engineering course. They want to research a stunning new core lab facility with faculty who are quite literally shaping the world of tomorrow. Housed in a city, unlike any other, our students gain an education unlike any other. The whole city is our classroom, and our students emerge not just with a diploma, but with experiences that could only happen at GW.
GW's location in the heart of Washington, D.C., provides for unparalleled access to leading international institutions, multinational corporations, global media outlets, and the governments of 177 countries via their resident embassies. This is a distinct advantage—no other university has as much potential for international engagement within the footsteps of its doors.
At GW, we believe that a community united in purpose has the power to set great ideas in motion. Our leadership and the entire community is committed to taking on new challenges and identifying opportunities to make a lasting contribution locally and globally. Our connections to the world's most influential organizations and institutions, many of which are within walking distance from our Foggy Bottom Campus, mean your education is not limited to the classroom. Undergraduate students and graduate students have internships or other hands-on learning experience before they graduate.
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