University of Washington

Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is a public research university serving more than 60,000 students a year across three campuses in Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma. It offers over 180 undergraduate majors and more than 300 graduate degree programs, spanning medicine, engineering, computer science and research across the scientific disciplines.

The university attracts more federal research funding than any other U.S. public university. Its academic community includes 8 Nobel Prize winners, 17 MacArthur Fellows and 189 members of the National Academies. Through UW Medicine, the institution operates a medical centre providing comprehensive care alongside biomedical research.

Employment is spread across higher education, academic research, healthcare and medical services, and biomedical research. The university's stated mission is to improve lives throughout Washington state and beyond, and it is consistently ranked among the top public universities globally.