<p>According to what I just read in The Fiske Guide, GMU is a commuter school with only 19% of hte student population residing on campus or univ. housing. Is that the case?</p>
<p>Yep, Mason is mostly a commuter school with the vast majority of the students all being from NoVA families. However, Mason has 30,300 students, so even if only 19% of those kids are staying on campus that comes out to 5750 or so kids on campus housing. So, if you will be staying on campus you won't have a hard time finding on-campus friends.</p>
<p>Mason is the 5th largest residential campus in VA with over 5,000 students on campus. about 75% of freshmen live on campus. Like most large univeristies in metropolitan areas (we're just outside DC) we have a large graduate and adult population, but we're far from a commuter institution.</p>