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You Can Help Every Patriot Succeed

At George Mason, student success is about more than a diploma. It’s about preparing graduates for life—and for a lifetime of achievement. We eliminate barriers to ensure that students from all backgrounds and starting points can thrive. We ask our students “Where do you want to go?” and then we work passionately to help them get there.

Your support can empower the next generation of learners and leaders to meet challenges, realize opportunities, and redefine what’s possible.

A Mason education prepares people to make an impact, and it’s a powerful brand with people working to solve grand problems that no other university can match. Mason is unique in the breadth and depth of what it offers and how it stays with you for your career.

Zayd Hamid BA Public Administration ‘24

Student Success by the Numbers

#1

Best Value School in Virginia
Wall Street Journal

#1

For Upward Mobility
Washington Monthly

#1

Public University for Veterans
College Factual
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Expanding Access

The Mason Virginia Promise (MVP) guarantees admission to graduates of partner community colleges to pursue a bachelor’s degree at George Mason. MVP also provides training to Virginians interested in starting a business. MVP exemplifies what George Mason is about: empowering people, rewarding entrepreneurship, and uplifting communities.

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Accelerating Achievement

George Mason’s Honors College provides outstanding entering first-year students—known as University Scholars—with four-year, full-tuition scholarships, enabling a diverse and multidisciplinary group of problem-solvers to take on the grand challenges and opportunities of the future.

If it wasn’t for the Early Identification Program, I honestly don’t know where I’d be in life. I actually had no clue what the journey to college even was.

Noel Quezada BS Criminology, Law and Society ’23; Forensic Science and Psychology double minor; Honors College; Army Reservist; Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army
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Propelling Progress

Since 1987, the Early Identification Program (EIP) has provided year-long educational resources to students in grades 8-12 who are the first in their families to attend college. EIP offers career readiness, social and personal development, and academic success support, helping students overcome barriers to admission, progression, and graduation.

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Serving Those Who Serve

The Military, Veterans, and Families Initiative (MVFI) leverages George Mason’s strengths as the largest, most diverse research university in Virginia to give back to those who give their all to our nation. The program provides coordinated access to university-wide services and programming to George Mason service members, veterans, and their families—who represent more than 10 percent of our undergraduate population.

Stories of Impact

Students at Mason Square Campus.

Gift from Charles Schwab Foundation Will Help Develop Next Generation in Certified Financial Planning

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Legacy Society Luncheon Honors the Impact of Planned Gifts for Future Generations

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Generous gift will name School of Computing, support scholarships

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Help Power Student Success

There is no greater gift than the gift of opportunity. Your support of student success initiatives at George Mason can impact lives and the future of our region.