"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, Mason Korea Campus Dean Joshua Park welcomed 272 new students at the Spring 2026 Convocation on February 27, the largest incoming class in the campus's history. The Incheon Global Campus auditorium was filled with students, faculty, and families marking the occasion together.
The numbers tell the story. Undergraduate enrollment reached 202 freshmen, joined by 18 new LLM students. International students numbered 198, a 37% increase since Spring 2025, underscoring the campus's growing reputation as a genuinely 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. IGC's new Chairman Ju-young Byun also joined the ceremony. Muir called the campus "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." 
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 motto, All Together Different.
George Mason President Gregory Washington added 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 UN, and graduate programs at LSE, Sciences Po, and Johns Hopkins, among others.
For the Class of Spring 2026, that journey starts now.
March 04, 2026