George Mason University Top Questions

It's diversity, basketball team and academics.

I enjoy watching performances at the Center of the Arts every semester. Also, I enjoy Mason Day which I attended Freshman year. Then I enjoy Patriot's Day which I first attended Sophomore year. Most of all, I enjoy discovering new campus events to attend and watching George Mason in the NCAA tournaments.

I think George Mason University has recently become best known for our wonderful basketball team, the George Mason Patriots. However, George Mason is also known for being one of the best public universities in the area. There is a strong sense of community at George Mason University that binds all students together. Being in the Washington, D.C. area, Mason is also known for it's diverse student base. I have met students from all around the world that share my passion -- to learn. Additionally, Mason is known for it's great faculty and equally awesome students.

I am not from the Northern Virginia area, so I first heard of George Mason when the men's basketball team became a Cinderella story during March Madness. While doing more research about the school, I found out that it's a university on the rise with great facilities and professors that absolutely love what they do do.

We are best known for being a rising university on the east coast in terms of academics and sports (primarily basketball).

George Mason has one of the best economics departments in the United States and has had 2 Nobel Prize winning professors and currently have 2 more professors who are expected to win the Nobel Prize in the next few years. We also have one of the best Public Policy programs for students looking to break into Government. All of our professors in the Public Policy department have worked in the government, and one professor for a class was actually working during the housing crisis and brought in government documents for an economic case study of the housing crisis.

Our school is best known for its diversity and willingness to accept every culture, religion, sexual orientation and gender. The diversity on campus opens student's eyes to the differnt veiws of people and creates room for open minds.

Mason is best known for its basketball team and for being environmentally friendly. Our basketball team went to the Final Four in 2006 and made it to the top 32 in the NCAA this past season. Mason is also continuously working on going green by providing vegan food options, encouraging energy-saving, and encouraging recycling.

Mason is probably known best for it's diversity and it's location. The students are so racially diverse which brings different perspectives into classroom discussions. Also, Mason is merely twenty minutes outside of Washington D.C. so lots of projects and events are held in the city.

My school is best known for the basketball team's appearance in the NCAA Final Four a few years ago. Also, we're well known for out educational and engineering programs, and the quality of our theatre/concert spaces and venues on campus such as the Patriot Center.