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In terms of faculty, administration, and other on-campus support, students feel that GMU’s “administration is vested in student outcomes” and that “the staff is unbelievably open to outside discussion and help providing high government contacts and networking.” The university’s ten minutes away from Washington, D.C., provides a major asset to job-seeking graduates “with ready access to fabulous internships and other educational opportunities at a public school price.” This proximity also creates a culture of working lawyers amongst its faculty: “most of the professors aren’t just professors. They’re also practicing attorneys or policy specialists who have major influences on their respective fields, and on the development of those fields.” Students find the school’s facilities “extremely up to date” and “outstanding,” and extol the librarians: “The librarians are perhaps the most wonderful people on campus.” There are some complaints about the law school’s relationship to the rest of the university: students claim “the law school is like the estranged step-child to the main campus,” that they “could use better amenities,” and that they sometimes “feel like nothing more than a cash cow to the main campus in Fairfax” due to rising tuition prices in the last few years. That said, Virginia locals appreciate the “in-state tuition rate,” which is “relatively cheap.”
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GMU hardly conveys that liberals need not apply, but prospective students are well-advised to know that “the school has a noticeable libertarian (not necessarily conservative) bias, but the faculty and students are accepting of other viewpoints and willing to engage in respectful debate.” Some attest that “there is no ideological diversity” and that the school could use “more diversity of viewpoints on the faculty,” but many others value the school’s “conservative perspective deriving from its focus on law and economics.” In general, though, GMU’s law students feel “camaraderie” in their peer community, and like that GMU is “not a cutthroat environment.”
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Associate Dean for Admissions
Arlington, VA 22201