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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a ridiculous thread.  Mason is far from the ugliest and why should anyone pick college based solely based on beauty anyway?

Most Virginia colleges have something that could be significantly improved.  JMU has an Interstate and railroad track running through it.  VCU has some great older re-purposed but a lack of open space and bad newer buildings.  ODU is kind of nondescript.   UVA kind of loses the thread as you move away from the Lawn.  VT has good and bad.  Pretty much anything that was put up on Virginia campuses from 1955-1980 was architecturally questionable.  Why single out GMU?[/quote]

Would’ve been better just to let this thread die. But since you did...VT and UVA are gorgeous. You’re nitpicking. [b]Mason is blah. 
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Grow up.  Mason is lovely.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj5ZiJox-0.  And my DD's dorm rooms looked like hotel rooms complete with enormous private bath w/ tub and kitchen.  There are benefits to a campus with state-of-the-art buildings.  GMU has five campuses, the most beautiful is the brand new one in Songdu, Korea.  https://masonkorea.gmu.edu/[/quote]

[b]Does anyone from Virginia actually choose the Korea campus?[/quote][/b]

They can, but it's mostly high-tech students from Korea who have to spend one year on the Fairfax campus.  It's all about integrating business, technology and $$ on the Dulles corridor and I-270 companies.  DS graduated in game design and Japanese from Mason and is employed by Zenimax, so can run game design programs in Japanese.  Same with Korean.  It's a huge market.  From wikipedia:

Songdo, South Korea

Data Center, Library, Guest House, Student's Hall[l]
Opened in March 2014, the Songdo campus is in South Korea's Incheon Free Economic Zone, a 42,000-acre (66 sq mi) site designed for 850,000 people. It's 25 miles (40 km) from Seoul and a two-hour flight from China and Japan.

The Commonwealth of Virginia considers the Songdo campus legally no different than any other Mason campus, "... board of visitors shall have the same powers with respect to operation and governance of its branch campus in Korea as are vested in the board by the Code of Virginia with respect to George Mason University in Virginia ..."[75]

Mason Korea students will spend the sixth and seventh semesters (one year) on the Fairfax Campus, with all other course work to be completed in Songdo. George Mason University Korea offers seven undergraduate programs: Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Global Affairs, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Computer Game Design. Mason Korea also has two graduate programs: Systems Engineering and IB & ESOL.

Students from Mason Korea earn the same diploma as home campus students.[/quote]

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