Mason Korea welcomes largest class ever for spring 2026

"Experiencing the same quality of education as our Virginia campus, right here in Songdo, one of Asia's most international cities—this is the realization of Two Nations, One Mason."

With those words, George Mason University Mason Korea campus dean Joshua Park welcomed 272 new students to the Spring 2026 Convocation on February 27. It is the largest incoming class in the campus's history.

Undergraduate enrollment at Mason Korea reached 202 freshmen, joined by 18 new Flex-Master of Laws (Flex-LLM) students. International students numbered 198, a 37% increase since spring 2025, underscoring the campus's growing reputation as a global learning environment.

The ceremony brought together leadership from both sides of the Pacific. Janette Muir, vice provost for academic affairs, a founding member of Mason Korea, and Cheryl Druehl, interim dean of the Costello College of Business, made the trip to Incheon. Incheon Global Campus’s new chairman, Ju-young Byun, also joined the ceremony.

Muir called Mason Korea "a place where the energy of innovation is alive" and urged students not to settle for just a degree. "Use this global education bridging two cultures to expand what you believe is possible," she said.

Park went on to challenge students directly. In an age of geopolitical uncertainty and AI-driven transformation, he said, the skills that matter most are global awareness and intellectual flexibility—the very values, he noted, that are embedded in George Mason's brand, All Together Different.

George Mason President Gregory Washington sent his congratulations via video from Fairfax.

Students at Mason Korea follow the same curriculum and earn the same degrees as their Virginia counterparts, spending three years in Incheon and one in Fairfax—a path that has taken graduates to KPMG, Samsung Biologics, the United Nations, and graduate programs at the London School of Economics, Sciences Po, and Johns Hopkins, among others.