George Mason University

George Mason was founded in 1949 as a northern branch of the University of Virginia and became an independent university in 1972. It has since grown into the largest public university by student enrollment in Virginia... Since the university's founding, two of its economics professors have received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics: James M. Buchanan in 1986 and Vernon L. Smith in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University