Go Mason!

U.S. News and World Report ranks George Mason the #1 up-and-coming National University.  The economics department and the law school are doing very well but so are many other innovative departments.  The report notes:

Established in 1972, Mason is a relatively young university. Not bound by tradition and old ways of thinking, the university and its
faculty embrace technology and new approaches to learning. Mason was
the first university in the country to offer doctoral programs in
conflict resolution, bioinformatics, computational social sciences, and
information technology; and the first to offer a graduate degree in
biodefense.