university of washington-seattle campus

1400 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, Washington

General information:	(206) 543-2100
Website:	www.washington.edu
Type:	Public, 4-year or above
Awards offered:	Bachelor's degree Postbaccalaureate certificate Master's degree Post-master's certificate Doctor's degree - research/scholarship Doctor's degree - professional practice
Campus setting:	City Large
Campus housing:	Yes

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General information:

Estimated student expenses (before aid):

Undergraduate academic year prices

Detailed expenses	2008-2009	2007-2008	2006-2007
Tuition and fees
In-state	$6,802	$6,385	$5,985
Out-of-state	$23,219	$22,131	$21,285
Books and supplies	$1,035	$1,008	$900
Living arrangement
On campus
Room and board	$8,640	$8,337	$8,001
Other	$2,661	$2,661	$2,265
Off campus
Room and board	$12,474	$11,742	$11,271
Other	$3,789	$3,708	$2,265
Off campus with family
Other	$2,661	$2,661	$2,265
Total expenses	2008-2009	2007-2008	2006-2007
In-state
On campus	$19,138	$18,391	$17,151
Off campus	$24,100	$22,843	$20,421
Off campus with family	$10,498	$10,054	$9,150
Out-of-state
On campus	$35,555	$34,137	$32,451
Off campus	$40,517	$38,589	$35,721
Off campus with family	$26,915	$25,800	$24,450

Financial aid:

Enrollment:

Admissions:

Undergraduate application fee: $50

Undergraduate admissions:

	TOTAL	MALE	FEMALE
Number of applicants:	19906	9338	10568
Percent admitted:	61%	57%	64%
Percent admitted who enrolled:	46%	49%	44%

Admissions Considerations	Required	Recommended
Secondary school GPA	X
Secondary school record	X
Completion of college-prepatory program	X
Formal demonstration of competencies		X
Admission test scores	X
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)	X

Test Scores (enrolled first-time students):

Students submitting scores	NUMBER	PERCENT
SAT	5060	91%
ACT	1550	28%

Test Scores	25th Percentile*	75th Percentile**
SAT Critical Reading	520	640
SAT Math	550	680
ACT Composite	23	29
ACT English	22	29
ACT Math	24	30

Notes:

* 25% of students scored at or below

** 25% of students scored above

Programs/majors

Completions 2007-2008:

Program	Bachelor	Master	Doctor
Natural resources and conservation.
Environmental Studies	30	-	-
Environmental Science	28	-	-
Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management	33	15	6
Forestry, General	-	30	13
Forest Management/Forest Resources Management	-	2	-
Urban Forestry	1	-	-
Forestry, Other	-	2	-
Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management	1	-	-
Category total	93	49	19
Architecture and related services.
Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)	42	47	-
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning	25	44	-
Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)	13	13	-
Category total	80	104	-
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies.
Asian Studies/Civilization	48	-	-
European Studies/Civilization	33	-	-
Latin American Studies	29	7	-
Near and Middle Eastern Studies	-	6	1
Russian Studies	-	9	-
Scandinavian Studies	5	1	-
South Asian Studies	-	2	-
Canadian Studies	1	-	-
Chinese Studies	-	5	-
French Studies	-	1	1
German Studies	1	-	-
Italian Studies	-	2	-
Japanese Studies	-	4	-
Korean Studies	-	7	-
Area Studies, Other	103	18	-
American Indian/Native American Studies	4	-	-
Womens Studies	21	-	3
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, and Gender Studies, Other	60	-	-
Category total	305	62	5
Communication, journalism, and related programs.
Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric	356	8	8
Journalism	52	-	-
Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia	-	17	-
Category total	408	25	8
Computer and information sciences and support services.
Computer and Information Sciences, General	-	67	19
Information Technology	35	-	-
Information Science/Studies	-	37	3
Computer Science	95	-	-
Category total	130	104	22
Education.
Education, General	-	84	19
Curriculum and Instruction	-	50	-
Educational Leadership and Administration, General	-	22	11
Educational Administration and Supervision, Other	-	22	-
Special Education and Teaching, General	-	34	2
Mathematics Teacher Education	3	-	-
Music Teacher Education	5	3	1
Biology Teacher Education	-	5	-
Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor	-	15	-
Category total	8	235	33
Engineering.
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering	38	33	5
Biomedical/Medical Engineering	32	14	18
Chemical Engineering	45	16	7
Civil Engineering, General	116	71	10
Computer Engineering, General	43	-	-
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering	161	66	26
Materials Engineering	39	1	7
Mechanical Engineering	85	35	12
Industrial Engineering	33	6	4
Manufacturing Engineering	-	2	-
Engineering, Other	11	-	-
Category total	603	244	89
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics.
Linguistics	37	13	1
Comparative Literature	43	6	8
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General	2	1	2
Chinese Language and Literature	1	-	-
Japanese Language and Literature	36	-	-
Korean Language and Literature	1	-	-
Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General	6	1	1
Russian Language and Literature	7	-	-
Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General	8	6	2
Danish Language and Literature	1	-	-
Swedish Language and Literature	1	-	-
South Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General	1	-	-
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General	4	-	-
French Language and Literature	22	-	-
Italian Language and Literature	3	-	-
Spanish Language and Literature	74	-	-
Ancient Near Eastern/Biblical Languages, Lit & Linguistics	1	-	-
Middle/Near Eastern/Semitic Languages, Lit & Linguistics, Other	14	1	-
Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics, General	15	2	4
Latin Language and Literature	3	-	-
Category total	280	30	18
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences.
Housing and Human Environments, General	-	-	1
Category total	-	-	1
Legal professions and studies.
Legal Studies, General	76	-	-
Law (LLB, JD)	-	-	171
Tax Law/Taxation (LLM, JSD/SJD)	-	57	-
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies, Other	-	41	2
Category total	76	98	173
English language and literature/letters.
English Language and Literature, General	289	10	18
Creative Writing	31	16	-
Technical and Business Writing	24	21	-
Category total	344	47	18
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities.
General Studies	76	-	-
Humanities/Humanistic Studies	12	-	-
Category total	88	-	-
Library science.
Library Science/Librarianship	-	117	-
Library Science, Other	-	5	-
Category total	-	122	-
Biological and biomedical sciences.
Biology/Biological Sciences, General	143	-	-
Biochemistry	155	-	10
Structural Biology	-	-	1
Botany/Plant Biology	6	-	-
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology	145	2	20
Microbiology, General	49	2	5
Immunology	-	-	6
Zoology/Animal Biology	2	1	10
Genetics, General	-	-	2
Human/Medical Genetics	-	2	-
Genetics, Other	-	1	5
Physiology, General	87	-	-
Neurobiology and Neurophysiology	42	-	9
Pathology/Experimental Pathology	-	1	3
Physiology, Pathology, and Related Sciences, Other	-	3	6
Pharmacology	-	1	8
Biostatistics	-	11	11
Biotechnology	-	-	1
Epidemiology	-	31	15
Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other	39	6	3
Category total	668	61	115
Mathematics and statistics.
Mathematics, General	94	5	12
Mathematics, Other	2	-	-
Applied Mathematics	-	28	6
Computational Mathematics	14	-	-
Applied Mathematics, Other	25	-	-
Statistics, General	6	10	5
Category total	141	43	23
Multi/interdisciplinary studies.
Museology/Museum Studies	-	22	-
Nutrition Sciences	-	8	2
Category total	-	30	2
Philosophy and religious studies.
Philosophy	62	5	2
Religion/Religious Studies	28	5	-
Islamic Studies	2	-	-
Jewish/Judaic Studies	6	-	-
Category total	98	10	2
Physical sciences.
Astronomy	9	3	3
Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, General	7	7	9
Chemistry, General	112	28	26
Geology/Earth Science, General	23	5	3
Geophysics and Seismology	5	2	1
Oceanography, Chemical and Physical	11	12	11
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Other	7	-	-
Physics, General	58	25	19
Physics, Other	-	-	1
Category total	232	82	73
Psychology.
Psychology, General	380	16	15
Clinical Psychology	-	-	7
Educational Psychology	-	17	-
Category total	380	33	22
Security and protective services.
Corrections and Criminal Justice, Other	2	-	-
Category total	2	-	-
Public administration and social service professions.
Public Administration	-	148	-
Public Policy Analysis	-	16	-
Social Work	51	159	4
Social Work, Other	-	9	-
Category total	51	332	4
Social sciences.
Social Sciences, General	75	-	-
Anthropology	124	8	6
Economics, General	363	20	12
Geography	83	6	12
Political Science and Government, General	367	9	14
Political Science and Government, Other	12	-	-
Sociology	264	12	6
Category total	1288	55	50
Visual and performing arts.
Dance, General	8	3	-
Design and Visual Communications, General	10	-	-
Industrial Design	18	-	-
Graphic Design	18	-	-
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General	50	-	-
Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology	-	4	-
Acting	-	10	-
Photography	14	-	-
Art/Art Studies, General	66	21	-
Art History, Criticism and Conservation	62	8	1
Painting	19	-	-
Sculpture	3	-	-
Ceramic Arts and Ceramics	9	-	-
Fiber, Textile and Weaving Arts	3	-	-
Metal and Jewelry Arts	6	-	-
Music, General	19	-	-
Music History, Literature, and Theory	-	6	-
Music Performance, General	8	2	1
Music Theory and Composition	-	-	2
Musicology and Ethnomusicology	1	4	-
Conducting	-	2	3
Piano and Organ	2	4	2
Voice and Opera	2	7	4
Jazz/Jazz Studies	6	-	-
Violin, Viola, Guitar and Other Stringed Instruments	2	-	-
Music, Other	-	3	-
Visual and Performing Arts, Other	10	-	-
Category total	336	74	13
Health professions and related clinical sciences.
Audiology/Audiologist and Hearing Sciences	-	-	9
Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist	60	25	4
Dentistry (DDS, DMD)	-	-	52
Oral Biology and Oral Pathology (MS, PhD)	-	5	1
Endodontics/Endodontology (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	2	-
Orthodontics/Orthodontology (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	5	-
Pediatric Dentistry/Pedodontics (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	5	-
Periodontics/Periodontology (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	2	-
Prosthodontics/Prosthodontology (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	6	-
Health/Health Care Administration/Management	-	41	-
Health Information/Medical Records Administration/Administrator	21	-	-
Physician Assistant	60	-	-
Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology/Technologist	25	-	-
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions, Other	-	1	-
Medicine (MD)	-	-	169
Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)	90	106	16
Pharmacy (PharmD [USA], PharmD or BS/BPharm [Canada])	-	-	111
Pharmaceutics and Drug Design (MS, PhD)	-	-	2
Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (MS, PhD)	-	-	1
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration, Other	-	1	3
Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)	-	79	6
Environmental Health	30	16	1
Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene	-	5	2
International Public Health/International Health	-	7	-
Public Health, Other	-	5	9
Occupational Therapy/Therapist	-	27	-
Orthotist/Prosthetist	11	-	-
Physical Therapy/Therapist	-	-	27
Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions, Other	-	2	-
Comparative and Laboratory Animal Medicine (Cert, MS, PhD)	-	1	-
Medical Informatics	-	1	2
Category total	297	342	415
Business, management, marketing, and related support services.
Business Administration and Management, General	77	349	13
Accounting	206	44	-
Auditing	-	39	-
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies	30	-	-
Finance, General	209	-	-
Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General	19	-	-
Management Information Systems, General	48	2	-
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	158	-	-
Construction Management	44	8	-
Category total	791	442	13
History
History, General	184	7	7
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology	3	-	-
History, Other	66	-	-
Category total	253	7	7
Grand total	6952	2631	1125

Data shown are for first majors
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