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The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private research university that was created in 1821 through an Act of Congress. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 10,740, its setting is Urban, and the campus size is 43 acres. It utilizes a Semester-based academic calendar. George Washington University's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 57.
GW comprises three campuses—Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon in Washington, D.C., and the GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Va.—as well as several graduate education centers in the metropolitan area and Hampton Roads, Va. GW is the largest institution of higher education in the District of Columbia.