Mason named residential campus

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has officially named George Mason University as a "primarily residential" campus. In order to be considered as primarily residential, 25 to 49 percent of undergraduates must live in campus housing.

Mason's website states that during the 2009-10 school year, there was a total of 19,130 undergraduate students. Of that number, 1,857 were freshmen and 4,996 lived on campus.

Not all students have noticed the change. Some students said that the reasons they chose Mason was for its proximity to home. Mason is trying to create an environment that is friendly to students both on and off campus. 

Read the article on Broadside Online.