University of Washington, Seattle

Continente:: North America
Country:: United States of America
Address:: University of Washington, 1410 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, Washington, 98195-5852, United States of America
Web Site:: www.washington.edu

About University of Washington, Seattle:

The University of Washington is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington was first established in downtown Seattle approximately a decade after the city's founding to aid its economic development. Today, the university's 703-acre main Seattle campus is situated in the University District above the Montlake Cut, within the urban Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest. The university has two additional campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Overall, UW encompasses over 500 buildings and over 20 million gross square footage of space, including one of the largest library systems in the world with over 26 university libraries, as well as the UW Tower, lecture halls, art centers, museums, laboratories, stadiums, and conference centers. The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees through 140 departments in various colleges and schools, sees about 46,000 in total student enrollment every year, and functions on a quarter system.

World University Rankings

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
World University Rankings	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	6	6	6	7	8	7	7	7

By Fields

Field	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Agriculture	24	27	21	28	175	20	24	26	23	21	21	20	24	27	30	34
Engineering	22	16	26	31	29	29	34	46	56	49	69	73	84	93	92	55
Life Sciences	7	9	8	5	5	7	7	9	10	10	11	12	12	11	11	12
Medicine	5	7	6	10	8	9	6	8	6	7	7	8	9	9	9	9
Natural Sciences	12	9	10	11	10	11	14	16	16	16	18	21	22	28	27	29
Social Sciences	6	7	7	7	9	9	6	4	4	5	8	7	9	9	8	9

By Subjects

Subject	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Agricultural Sciences	93	175	157	162	151	150	153	221	191	217	273	239	253
Biology & Biochemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	12	-	7	6
Chemistry	28	35	38	41	58	53	49	61	68	78	106	109	65
Chemical Engineering	111	111	81	91	117	117	101	115	116	116	213	234	114
Civil Engineering	62	65	74	74	87	109	109	95	88	113	90	81	50
Clinical Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	9	8	9	8
Computer Science	28	16	25	29	37	47	50	72	88	80	94	97	45
Economics & Business	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	36	44	-	54	74
Electrical Engineering	30	28	34	41	51	57	69	74	79	78	94	118	52
Environment / Ecology	18	11	6	10	14	13	8	10	10	10	-	11	21
Geosciences	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	4	5	-	9	11
Immunology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	5	-	8	7
Materials Science	18	15	16	24	34	41	37	46	58	78	87	81	57
Mathematics	9	11	10	12	18	18	22	18	30	26	44	42	31
Mechanical Engineering	98	120	183	178	152	159	196	215	217	186	119	96	99
Microbiology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	4	-	-	4
Molecular Biology & Genetics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	12	-	13	18
Neuroscience & Behavior	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	27	-	23	26
Pharmacology & Toxicolog	-	5	5	8	3	3	3	4	11	12	19	18	22
Physics	20	18	24	22	28	26	26	29	35	37	40	26	35
Plant & Animal Science	36	35	33	30	33	25	29	29	28	29	32	39	47
Psychiatry / Psychology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	28	-	26	28
Social Sciences, General	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	7	7	6	8
Space Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	24	-	45	43
Energy Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	101	100	69
Environmental Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	32	29
Biomedical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	35	33	53