Foggy Bottom
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| 2025 | Forbes ranked George Washington University 67th in its university rankings. |
| 2024 | U.S. News and World Report ranked George Washington University tied for 63rd on its National University list, while Washington Monthly ranked it 28th in National University Rankings. |
| 2023 | George Washington University was invited to join the Association of American Universities. |
| 2020 | U.S. News & World Report ranked GW Law School fifth best for international law and intellectual law programs, second best for part-time law, and 22nd overall among U.S. law schools. |
| 2019 | The Times Higher Education ranked George Washington University's law program 64th in the world. |
| 2019 | Brian Friedman acquires the Watergate Office Building for $101.5 million. |
| 2018 | Foreign Policy ranked the Elliott School's Masters in International Affairs as the seventh best in the world and its undergraduate international relations program eighth in the United States. |
| 2018 | The university spent $260 million on research and development, ranking 89th nationally according to the National Science Foundation. |
| 2016 | The 336-room Watergate Hotel reopens after a comprehensive renovation, nine years after its closure. |
| 2014 | The university was reinstated in the U.S. News & World Report rankings after being unranked in the previous year. |
| 2013 | Mohammad Nahavandian, an economics faculty member, became chief of staff of the President of Iran. |
| 2013 | U.S. News & World Report removed George Washington University from its rankings and marked the school as unranked due to the admissions data misreporting incident. |
| 2012 | The university publicly acknowledged misreporting admissions data, overstating the number of students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school classes due to a data reporting error. |
| May 2010 | Euro Capital Properties purchases the Watergate Hotel for $45 million with plans to rehabilitate it. |
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