George Washington University

Our University effectively connects with Washington, D.C., and the world. Our area in the heart of Washington spots us at the center of U.S. government, arrangement and law. We sit where the universes of science, innovation, media and expressions of the human experience focalize. Our understudies and staff have the unparalleled chance to study and work close by pioneers and experts in each control, to participate in the trades that shape our group and the world. 

The George Washington University was made in 1821 through an Act of Congress, satisfying George Washington's vision of an organization in the country's capital committed to teaching and get ready future pioneers. 

Today, GW is the biggest organization of advanced education in the District of Columbia. We have more than 26,000 understudies—from each of the 50 expresses, the District and 130 nations—concentrating on a rich scope of controls: from scientific science and experimental writing to worldwide issues and PC building, and in addition drug, general wellbeing, the law and open approach. 

We endeavor to give a domain where information is made and procured and where inventive tries try to enhance the encounters of the worldwide society. With ten schools and universities and about 100 examination focuses and establishes, our understudies get hands-on experience as they investigate almost any street of individual premium. 

The profundity and expansiveness of our scholastic projects, the uncommon capabilities of our full-time personnel, the unmatched encounters of our aide workforce and the qualities of our examination activities permit our understudies, our workforce and our staff to take a gander at the world past the classroom. They permit us to set up the up and coming era of pioneers. 

The college was an inside for hypothetical material science in the 1930s. Eminent cosmologist George Gamow delivered basic work on the Big Bang Theory at GW. What's more, a standout amongst the most imperative minutes in the twentieth century was uncovered at a gathering on the GW grounds: On Jan. 26, 1939, Niels Bohr reported that Otto Hahn had effectively part the molecule. 

The college experienced a building blast in 1930s through the 1960s, including Lisner Auditorium 21st Street, a doctor's facility close Washington Circle and various different structures. Amid this period, GW started a system of yearly graduated class endowments, making a critical wellspring of income that proceeds right up 'til the present time. 

In 1991, GW opened the Virginia Science and Technology Campus, in Ashburn, committed to graduate study and front line research. After five years, the University acquired the Mount Vernon College for Women in the city's Foxhall neighborhood. The coeducational Mount Vernon Campus is completely coordinated into the GW people group and supplements the Foggy Bottom Campus. 

The George Washington University's administration group—made out of the leading body of trustees, president, executive, VPs, senior members and division seats—oversees everyday operations at the college and is solidly dedicated to guaranteeing a top-quality instructive experience for GW understudies. 

Steven Knapp turned into the sixteenth president of the George Washington University in August 2007.  His needs incorporate upgrading the college's organizations with neighboring establishments, growing the extent of its exploration, fortifying its overall group of graduated class, expanding its understudies' chances for open administration, and driving its change into a model of urban manageability. 

We energize all understudies and families who are thinking about GW to visit our grounds and experience direct all that we bring to the table. We offer a scope of visit alternatives to fit your planning needs. 

The college is a necessary part of the District of Columbia and no visit to GW is finished without examining the offerings of its city. Washington, D.C., is open and simple to get around, with a variety of moderate hotel situated close to the college and a lot of feasting choices on and off grounds. 

All incredible urban areas have extraordinary colleges. With profound roots in the District of Columbia, the George Washington University is put resources into the achievement and essentialness of the Washington metropolitan region and the prosperity of its inhabitants. We effectively impart our assets and develop coordinated effort to the groups encompassing each of the three of our grounds, including Foggy Bottom, Mount Vernon and our Virginia Science and Technology grounds, improving our aggregate personal satisfaction and propelling our shared objectives. 

The George Washington University's understudies, staff and graduated class loan an abundance of scholarly funding to Washington's arrangement thoughts, whether they happen in the White House, the U.S. Congress, the D.C. also, Virginia governments, the courts or the several organizations, affiliations, establishments and research organizations all through the area. GW imbues Washington's administration related foundations with its examination, experience, human capital and a multitude of committed assistants. 

Understudies and families who put resources into a GW training merit the trust in realizing that they will get not just scholastic offerings that advance their acumen and foster a deep rooted adoration for adapting, additionally the sort of expert improvement that prompts intentional and prosperous vocations. 

GW has a long history of equivalent open door and a solid duty to assorted qualities. Be that as it may, there is more we can do to expand on the assorted qualities of our group and ensure we cultivate an inviting and strong environment for all. 

Intercultural understanding and the capacity to work with individuals from various foundations are vital to future subjects and pioneers. By making a society of social sympathy, we will help the individuals from our group see and take care of issues from different points of view, move deftly among societies and explore over their own particular various characters. 

In light of a call from President Barack Obama, GW President Steven Knapp made the Task Force on Access and Success to investigate and grow open doors for low-pay understudies to go to and succeed at GW.