The Mason Experience: Past and Present

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George Mason University is Virginia’s largest state university with an enrollment of nearly 40,000 on four campuses. Mason began as branch college of the University of Virginia in 1957 in a former elementary school in Bailey’s Crossroads with an enrollment of 17. Explore and learn about Mason people, events, groups, movements, and traditions through the lens of the changing campus landscape.

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At the corner of Leesburg Pike (VA Route 7) and Columbia Pike (VA Route 244) once stood an eight-room schoolhouse, Bailey's Elementary School. The school was built in 1922 and served elementary…

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George Mason University's Science and Technology Campus sits on 134 acres located just off the Prince William Parkway (VA Route 234), between University Boulevard and Wellington Road, just west…

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Formerly called the Law School Campus, Metro Campus, and Arlington Campus, Mason Square is George Mason University's smallest campus in Virginia at 5.2 acres. However, it hosts three of the…

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Wilkins Plaza is named for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, civil rights activist, and George Mason University Robinson Professor, Roger Wilkins. Wilkins taught at George Mason from 1986 to 2007. …

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