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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's very local, suburban, and viewed as a commuter school [/quote]

And also skews conservative, which isn't appealing to many in the immediate DMV.[/quote]

I saw this written in another thread a few weeks ago.  
Where do you get this from?   
I have no idea how credible the "Niche" website is--but Niche seems to think the school is more liberal--twice as many students identify as Democrat than Republican
https://www.niche.com/colleges/george-mason-university/students/
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Because its Econ department is basically an outpost of the Chicago school. Its law school also hires and manages to draw very prominent conservatives. In both cases it manages to hire very much about its weight, so the embrace of conservatives is definitely working from that perspective. [/quote]

Ok, but the students don't skew conservative, right?
And if you're not majoring in Economics or going to law school, you won't really have much interaction with the above.  [b] Do departments skew conservative or liberal?[/b][/quote]

I went there a while back, for an interdisciplinary STEM grad degree (also TA'd in one of the departments), and I could not tell you if the staff tended to skew conservative or liberal.  It just did not come up, which is as it should be.  My niece was offered a free ride to the GMU Econ program 6 or 7 years ago, and turned it down for full pay UChicago Econ.  She said the deciding factor for her was that Mason Econ skewed Libertarian, and that was not the direction she wanted to go.[/quote]

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