Washington, University of

Washington, University of

      public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Seattle, Washington, U.S. It includes colleges of architecture and urban planning, arts and sciences, education, engineering, forest resources, and ocean and fishery sciences; schools of business administration, dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and community medicine, and social work; the Information School (library science) and the Graduate School; and a graduate school of public affairs. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell award both bachelor's and master's degrees. Research facilities include the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, Friday Harbor Laboratories, and Charles Lathrop Pack and Lee Memorial forests. The main campus has museums of art and natural history. Total enrollment is approximately 37,000.

      The University of Washington was established in 1861 and is the oldest state-supported university on the Pacific Coast. Its early years were marked by unreliable funding and periods of suspended operations. By the 1890s, however, the university's financial support was stabilized, and it began to prosper. The School of Law and the Graduate School were both founded in 1899. The Bothell and Tacoma campuses opened in 1990. Several Nobel Prize-winning medical researchers and economists have been faculty members of the University of Washington.

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