George Mason University

The largest public institution in Virginia, George Mason University is a doctoral extensive institution with three campuses in Northern Virginia and over 29,000 students.

Our mission statement:

George Mason University will be an institution of international academic
reputation providing superior education for students to develop critical,
analytical, and imaginative thinking and to make well-founded ethical
decisions. It will respond to the call for interdisciplinary research
and teaching, not simply by adding programs but by rethinking the traditional
structure of the academy.

The university will prepare students to address the complex issues facing
them in society and to discover meaning in their own lives. It will encourage
diversity in its student body and will meet the needs of students by providing
them with interdisciplinary and innovative undergraduate, graduate, and
professional courses. The university will energetically seek ways to interact
with and serve the needs of the student body.

The university will nurture and support a faculty that is diverse, innovative,
excellent in teaching, active in pure and applied research, and responsive
to the needs of students and the community. The faculty will embody the
university's interactive approach to change both in the academy and in
the world.

The university will be a resource of the Commonwealth of Virginia serving
private and public sectors. It will be an intellectual and cultural nexus
between Northern Virginia, the nation, and the world. (Adopted January
1991)