George Mason University

George Mason University (GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. and named for the Founding Father George Mason.乔治梅森大学（George Mason University，简称 GMU）是位于美国弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯县的公立研究型大学，地处华盛顿特区附近的北弗吉尼亚，以开国元勋乔治·梅森命名。

The university was founded in 1949 as a northern branch of the University of Virginia, became independent in 1972 and has grown into the largest public university in Virginia by student enrolment.该校 1949 年作为弗吉尼亚大学的分校创办，1972 年独立，现已成长为弗吉尼亚州招生规模最大的公立大学。

Classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, it counts two Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in economics among its faculty, James M. Buchanan in 1986 and Vernon L. Smith in 2002.该校被归入研究活动极高的 R1 级博士大学，其教师中有两位诺贝尔经济学奖得主，分别是 1986 年的詹姆斯·M·布坎南与 2002 年的弗农·L·史密斯。

History

• In 1949 the University of Virginia created an extension centre near Washington to serve mid-career working professionals and non-traditional students in the Northern Virginia suburbs.1949 年，弗吉尼亚大学在华盛顿附近创建了一所进修中心，服务北弗吉尼亚郊区的中年在职专业人士与非传统学生。

• The extension centre offered evening classes in pre-existing venues, and by the end of 1952 its enrolment had reached 1,192 students.该进修中心借用既有场所开设晚间课程，到 1952 年底招生已达 1,192 人。

• A resolution of the Virginia General Assembly in January 1956 turned the extension centre into University College, the Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia, under director John Norville Gibson Finley.1956 年 1 月弗吉尼亚州议会通过决议，把该进修中心改为「大学学院」，即弗吉尼亚大学的北弗吉尼亚分校，由约翰·诺维尔·吉布森·芬利任主任。

• Seventeen freshmen began classes at University College in a small renovated elementary school building at Bailey's Crossroads in September 1957.1957 年 9 月，17 名新生在贝利十字路口一栋改建的小学教学楼里开始了大学学院的课程。

• University College became George Mason College in 1958, and in 1959 the Board of Visitors selected the permanent name George Mason College of the University of Virginia.大学学院于 1958 年改为乔治梅森学院，1959 年校监委员会确定其永久名称为「弗吉尼亚大学乔治梅森学院」。

• The City of Fairfax purchased and donated land just south of the city limits for the college's new site, now the Fairfax Campus, and construction began in 1962.费尔法克斯市购买并捐赠了市界以南的土地作为学院新址，即今日的费尔法克斯校区，工程建设于 1962 年启动。

• In the autumn of 1964 the new Fairfax campus welcomed 356 students and opened with four buildings.1964 年秋，新的费尔法克斯校区迎来 356 名学生，首批启用四栋建筑。

• In 1966 Alexandria delegate James M. Thomson introduced bill H 33, approved on 1 March 1966, which made George Mason College a degree-granting four-year institution.1966 年亚历山德里亚选区议员詹姆斯·M·汤姆森提出 H 33 号法案，该案于 1966 年 3 月 1 日获批，使乔治梅森学院成为可授予学位的四年制院校。

• In the same year local jurisdictions agreed to appropriate $3 million to buy land adjacent to the college, envisaging a regional university offering graduate degrees.同年，地方各辖区同意拨款 300 万美元购置学院邻近土地，以期建成一所可授予研究生学位的地区性大学。

• In 1972 Virginia separated George Mason College from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and renamed it George Mason University.1972 年，弗吉尼亚州把乔治梅森学院与夏洛茨维尔的弗吉尼亚大学分离，并将其更名为乔治梅森大学。

• George W. Johnson became the fourth president in 1978, and shortly before his inauguration in April 1979 the university acquired a School of Law and the new Arlington Campus.乔治·W·约翰逊于 1978 年出任第四任校长，在其 1979 年 4 月就职前夕，大学获得了法学院与新的阿灵顿校区。

• Under Johnson's eighteen-year tenure the university became a doctoral institution and built Student Union Building II, EagleBank Arena, the Center for the Arts and the Johnson Learning Center.在约翰逊十八年的任期内，该校成为可授予博士学位的机构，并建成第二学生活动中心、鹰岸体育馆、艺术中心与约翰逊学习中心。

• Enrolment more than doubled from 10,767 in the autumn of 1978 to 24,368 in the spring of 1996.招生人数从 1978 年秋的 10,767 人增长一倍有余，到 1996 年春达到 24,368 人。

• Alan Merten, a Cornell University dean, was appointed president in 1996, and the university hosted the World Congress of Information Technology in 1998.曾任康奈尔大学院长的艾伦·默滕于 1996 年获任校长，该校又于 1998 年主办了世界信息技术大会。

• During Merten's tenure the university celebrated a second Nobel Memorial Prize-winning faculty member in 2002 and reached the NCAA Final Four in men's basketball in 2006.在默滕任内，该校于 2002 年迎来第二位获诺贝尔奖的教师，其男子篮球队于 2006 年打入 NCAA 四强。

• Ángel Cabrera was appointed the university's sixth president on 1 July 2012, and in 2013 George Mason left the Colonial Athletic Association to join the Atlantic 10 Conference.安赫尔·卡布雷拉于 2012 年 7 月 1 日获任第六任校长；2013 年乔治梅森退出殖民地体育联盟，加入大西洋十校联盟。

• Cabrera resigned on 31 July 2019 to lead Georgia Tech, and Anne B. Holton served as interim president until 30 June 2020.卡布雷拉于 2019 年 7 月 31 日辞职转任佐治亚理工学院校长，安妮·B·霍尔顿担任临时校长至 2020 年 6 月 30 日。

• On 24 February 2020 the Board of Visitors appointed Gregory Washington as the eighth president, and he took office on 1 July 2020 as the university's first African-American president.2020 年 2 月 24 日校监委员会任命格雷戈里·华盛顿为第八任校长，他于 2020 年 7 月 1 日就职，成为该校首位非裔校长。

• On 23 March 2020 George Mason shifted to exclusively online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, then ran hybrid teaching through the 2021 semesters.2020 年 3 月 23 日，乔治梅森在新冠疫情期间转为纯线上教学，随后在 2021 年各学期实行线上线下混合授课。

• In August 2025 the Department of Education alleged that the university had violated Title VI by using race and other immutable characteristics in hiring and promotion in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion.2025 年 8 月，美国教育部指称该校以多元、公平与包容为名，在招聘与晋升中使用种族及其他不可改变的特征，违反《第六条》。

Academics

• George Mason offers undergraduate, master's, law and doctoral degrees with an emphasis on combining practice-based professional education with a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum.乔治梅森开设本科、硕士、法律与博士各类学位，强调把基于实践的专业教育与综合性博雅课程相结合。

• The student-faculty ratio is 17 to 1, 58 per cent of undergraduate classes have fewer than 30 students and 30 per cent have fewer than 20.其师生比为 17 比 1，58% 的本科课程班额少于 30 人，30% 少于 20 人。

• In 2024 the university accepted 90 per cent of its undergraduate applicants, admitted candidates had an average high-school GPA of 3.68 and did not require standardised test scores.2024 年该校本科录取率为 90%，获录取者的高中平均绩点为 3.68，且不强制要求标准化考试成绩。

• Mason enrolled 40,185 students in 2023, making it the largest university by headcount in Virginia.2023 年梅森招有 40,185 名学生，是弗吉尼亚州按人头计规模最大的大学。

• In the autumn of 2013 it enrolled 33,917 students, of whom 21,990 were undergraduates, 11,399 graduate students and 528 law students, drawn from all 50 states and 122 foreign countries.2013 年秋该校招有 33,917 名学生，其中本科生 21,990 人、研究生 11,399 人、法律生 528 人，学生来自全美 50 州与 122 个国家。

• George Mason hosts $149 million in sponsored research projects annually, as of 2019, focused on health, sustainability and security.截至 2019 年，乔治梅森每年开展 1.49 亿美元的资助研究项目，聚焦健康、可持续性与安全。

• In 2016 the university was classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, based on a review of its 2013-2014 data.2016 年，依据对 2013 至 2014 年数据的评审，该校被归入研究活动极高的 R1 级博士大学。

• Its research centres and institutes include the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, the Mercatus Center, the Center for Study of Public Choice and the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases.其研究中心与研究所包括克拉斯诺高等研究所、墨卡图斯中心、公共选择研究中心以及国家生物防御与传染病中心。

• Other units are the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security and the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center.其他机构还有罗伊·罗森茨韦格历史与新媒体中心、迈克尔·V·海登情报、政策与国际安全中心，以及恐怖主义、跨国犯罪与腐败研究中心。

• The Antonin Scalia Law School, named after the U.S. Supreme Court justice, and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution give the university contrasting intellectual anchors.以美国最高法院大法官命名的安东宁·斯卡利亚法学院，与吉米及罗莎琳·卡特和平与冲突解决学院，为该校提供了彼此对照的思想支柱。

• The Schar School of Policy and Government and the School of Business run graduate programmes from the Arlington campus, and the university is a member of the Washington Research Library Consortium.沙尔政策与政府学院与商学院在阿灵顿校区开设研究生课程，该校还是华盛顿研究图书馆联盟成员。

• George Mason belongs to academic networks including the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, the National Sea Grant College Program and Oak Ridge Associated Universities.乔治梅森所属的学术网络包括华盛顿都会区大学联盟、国家海洋资助学院计划以及橡树岭联合大学。

• Through its partnership with the Smithsonian Institution the university runs conservation-training programmes and the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation in Front Royal.该校通过与史密森学会的合作开设保护培训项目，并在弗兰特罗亚尔运营史密森-梅森保护学院。

• Two of its economists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: James M. Buchanan in 1986 and Vernon L. Smith in 2002.其两位经济学家曾获诺贝尔经济学奖：1986 年的詹姆斯·M·布坎南与 2002 年的弗农·L·史密斯。

• Notable faculty have also included the political scientist Francis Fukuyama and the economist Walter E. Williams, the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics.其知名教师还包括政治学家弗朗西斯·福山与经济学者、约翰·M·奥林经济学讲席教授沃尔特·E·威廉姆斯。

• The university's R1 status and its practice-based curriculum have made it a centre for research in public policy, economics, cybersecurity, biosciences and conflict resolution.其 R1 地位与注重实践的课程，使其成为公共政策、经济学、网络安全、生物科学与冲突解决等领域的研究重镇。

• The university's computing and engineering programmes, together with its cybersecurity and information-technology research, underpin some of its fastest-growing academic areas.该校的计算与工程项目，连同其网络安全与信息技术研究，构成其增长最快的学术领域之一。

• Doctoral and master's degrees are offered across its schools and colleges, including the College of Science, the College of Engineering and Computing and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.该校各学院均开设博士与硕士学位，包括理学院、工程与计算学院以及人文与社会科学学院。

Campus

• The university operates four campuses in the United States, each in Virginia, plus one international campus in Incheon, South Korea.该校在美国境内设有四个校区，均位于弗吉尼亚州，另在韩国仁川设有一个国际校区。

• The primary Fairfax Campus sits on 677 wooded acres in central Fairfax County, just south of the City of Fairfax and about 20 miles from downtown Washington, D.C.主校区费尔法克斯校区坐落在费尔法克斯县中部 677 英亩的林地上，位于费尔法克斯市以南，距华盛顿特区市中心约 20 英里。

• The Fairfax Campus opened in 1964 with four buildings and now contains the Johnson Center student union, a 2,000-seat Center for the Arts and the expanded Fenwick Library.费尔法克斯校区 1964 年以四栋建筑启用，现设有约翰逊中心学生活动楼、可容纳 2,000 人的艺术中心以及扩建后的芬威克图书馆。

• More than 6,000 students live in about 40 residence halls on the Fairfax Campus, and the campus also has an astronomy observatory and three gymnasiums with an aquatic centre.费尔法克斯校区约有 40 栋宿舍，住有 6,000 余名学生；校区内还设有天文台以及三座体育馆与一个水上中心。

• A bronze statue of George Mason by Wendy M. Ross was dedicated on 12 April 1996, and in 2021 an Enslaved People of George Mason Monument designed by Perkins & Will was installed near it.温迪·M·罗斯所铸的乔治·梅森铜像于 1996 年 4 月 12 日落成，2021 年又在其旁安放了由珀金斯·威尔事务所设计的「乔治·梅森的被奴役者」纪念碑。

• Mason Square, the Arlington campus renamed in 2022, occupies 5.2 acres in Virginia Square and houses the Antonin Scalia Law School in Hazel Hall, which opened in 1998.2022 年更名的阿灵顿校区「梅森广场」占地 5.2 英亩，位于弗吉尼亚广场，其黑泽尔楼 1998 年启用，驻有安东宁·斯卡利亚法学院。

• The Science and Technology Campus in Manassas opened on 25 August 1997 and includes the Hylton Performing Arts Center and the 110,000-square-foot Freedom Aquatic and Fitness Center.位于马纳萨斯的科学与技术校区于 1997 年 8 月 25 日启用，内有希尔顿表演艺术中心与占地 11 万平方英尺的自由水上健身中心。

• The Front Royal campus, run with the Smithsonian Institution, opened to students in August 2012 and focuses on global conservation training.与史密森学会合办的弗兰特罗亚尔校区 2012 年 8 月向学生开放，以全球保护培训为重点。

• Mason Korea opened in March 2014 in the Songdo International Business District of Incheon, where students can take seven bachelor's degree courses and graduated their first class in December 2017.梅森韩国校区 2014 年 3 月在仁川松岛国际商务区启用，学生可修读七个学士学位课程，首届毕业生于 2017 年 12 月毕业。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 George Mason University is placed in the 1001-1200 band, a shared range rather than a single position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，乔治梅森大学位列第 1001-1200 位区间，与同档多所高校并列而非单一席位。

• The university appears in the 401-450 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名的第 401-450 位区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking Mason stands at number 471 worldwide, and the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 201-300 band.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，梅森位列全球第 471 位；软科 2026 年世界大学学术排名则将其列入第 201-300 位区间。

• OpenAlex attributes 83,710 scholarly works and 3,508,107 citations to the university, among the highest research volumes of any institution in Virginia.OpenAlex 收录该校署名的学术成果 83,710 项、被引 3,508,107 次，是弗吉尼亚州各高校中研究体量最高者之一。

• In 2024 U.S. News & World Report tied George Mason at 109th out of 436 National Universities and tied at 52nd in Top Public Schools.《美国新闻与世界报道》2024 年版把乔治梅森列为 436 所全美综合性大学并列第 109 位、公立大学并列第 52 位。

• The same ranking placed it 25th in Most Innovative Schools, tied at 20th in Co-ops and Internships, tied at 93rd in Economics and tied at 114th in Nursing.同一榜单又把它列为最具创新学校第 25 位、合作社与实习并列第 20 位、经济学并列第 93 位、护理学并列第 114 位。

• The New York Times ranked the university 19th among United States colleges for advancing social mobility and for the socioeconomic diversity of its students.《纽约时报》把该校列为全美在提升社会流动性与学生社会经济多样性方面第 19 位的大学。

• The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranked George Mason 8th in the nation for freedom of speech and protection of First Amendment rights.个人权利与表达基金会把乔治梅森列为全美言论自由与《第一修正案》权利保障第 8 位的大学。

• The university moved to the top research classification in 2016, joining the R1 group of doctoral universities with very high research activity.该校于 2016 年升至最高研究分类，跻身研究活动极高的 R1 级博士大学之列。

Student life

• George Mason has no Latin motto, but for a period it carried the tagline "Where Innovation Is Tradition", reflecting its self-image as an unconventional institution.乔治梅森大学没有拉丁文校训，但曾一度使用「Where Innovation Is Tradition」这一标语，体现其以非传统机构自居的形象。

• Students often decorate the bronze George Mason statue on the Fairfax campus and rub its toe for good luck, and many pose with it for graduation photographs.学生常装饰费尔法克斯校区的乔治·梅森铜像，并抚摸其脚趾以求好运，许多人也与之合影留念。

• Each spring student organisations compete to paint one of the 38 benches on the Quad in front of Fenwick Library, a tradition used to gain recognition for their groups.每年春天，各学生组织竞相绘制芬威克图书馆前方庭的 38 张长椅之一，以此为自己的团体赢得关注。

• The university recognises more than 300 student organisations and 42 fraternities and sororities with a total Greek population of about 1,800.该校认可 300 多个学生组织以及 42 个兄弟会与姐妹会，参与希腊式社团的学生总数约 1,800 人。

• Student media include the weekly newspaper Fourth Estate, the literary and art journal Phoebe and the station WGMU Radio, the flagship for Mason basketball broadcasts.学生媒体包括周报《第四等级》、文学与艺术刊物《菲比》以及电台 WGMU Radio，后者是梅森篮球赛事转播的主打平台。

• The George Mason Fight Song was written by Anthony Maiello between 1988 and 1990 and edited by Michael Nickens in 2009.乔治梅森校歌由安东尼·马耶洛于 1988 至 1990 年间创作，2009 年由迈克尔·尼肯斯修订。

• The Mason Patriots compete in Division I of the NCAA, mainly in the Atlantic 10 Conference, with about 485 student-athletes in 22 men's and women's sports.梅森「爱国者」队参加 NCAA 一级联赛，主要角逐大西洋十校联盟，约有 485 名学生运动员分布于 22 个男女项目。

• The faculty-led Mason Players produce six theatre productions each year, adding to the university's performing-arts life around the Center for the Arts and Hylton Performing Arts Center.由教师带领的梅森剧社每年推出六部戏剧作品，为艺术中心与希尔顿表演艺术中心周边的表演艺术生活增色。

Notable people

• George Mason, the Founding Father of the United States after whom the university is named, drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights that shaped the U.S. Bill of Rights.该校名字来源、美国开国元勋乔治·梅森起草了《弗吉尼亚权利宣言》，后者塑造了美国《权利法案》。

• James M. Buchanan, who taught at the university, won the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and founded the public-choice school of economics.在该校执教的詹姆斯·M·布坎南获 1986 年诺贝尔经济学奖，是公共选择学派经济学的奠基人。

• Vernon L. Smith, a professor at George Mason, shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in experimental economics.乔治梅森大学教授弗农·L·史密斯因在实验经济学方面的贡献分享 2002 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist and author known for his work on the end of history, has held a professorship at the university.以「历史终结论」闻名的政治学家与作家弗朗西斯·福山曾在该校任教授。

• Michael V. Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, was hired by the university in 2009.前中央情报局与国家安全局局长迈克尔·V·海登于 2009 年获该校聘用。

• Karl Rove, senior advisor to President George W. Bush, is an alumnus of George Mason University.总统乔治·W·布什的高级顾问卡尔·罗夫是乔治梅森大学校友。

• Don Beyer, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 8th district, holds a degree from the university.代表弗吉尼亚州第八选区的美国众议员唐·拜尔拥有该校学位。

• Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, a former Prime Minister of Somalia, is among the university's graduates.索马里前总理阿卜迪韦利·穆罕默德·阿里·加斯是该校毕业生之一。

• Anna Escobedo Cabral, a former Treasurer of the United States, and Kathleen L. Casey, a former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are alumni.美国前财务官安娜·埃斯科贝多·卡布拉尔与美国证券交易委员会前委员凯瑟琳·L·凯西都是该校校友。

• Christine Fox, a former acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Ken Cuccinelli, a former attorney general of Virginia, studied at George Mason.美国前代理国防部副部长克里斯汀·福克斯与弗吉尼亚州前总检察长肯·库奇内利都曾就读乔治梅森。

• Becky Hall-Long, a former governor of Delaware, and Riley Moore, a member of the U.S. House from West Virginia, are alumni of the university.特拉华州前州长贝姬·霍尔-朗与代表西弗吉尼亚州的美国众议员莱利·摩尔均为该校校友。

• Archie Kao, an American actor, is also an alumnus of George Mason University.美籍演员高圣远也是乔治梅森大学校友。