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unitid 236948 · Seattle, WA · public 4-year · city (large)

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Public university in Seattle, Washington, US

founded
1861
enrollment 2023
57,633
predominant degree
Bachelor's
motto
“Lux sit”
Campus of University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Martin Kraft · CC BY-SA 3.0

The University of Washington is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, it is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast. wikipedia rev 1359910597 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

39%

6th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

31,942

95th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

15%

undergrads on Pell grants

6th pctl among public 4-years

completion

85%

finish within 150% time

97th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$32,446

93rd pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$14,091

after aid, aided students

60th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$78,466

after entry, Title IV students

96th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$14,615

28th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $6,384 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    29%
  • 30-48k
    18%
  • 48-75k
    18%
  • 75-110k
    13%
  • 110k+
    23%
Median family income
$39,205
First-generation students
33%
In-state tuition & fees
$12,973

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.4× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Computer and Information Sciences, General.622$121,341$16,277
Research and Experimental Psychology.496—$15,754
Computer Science.495$162,117$16,118
Political Science and Government.389$68,104$14,000
Business Administration, Management and Operations.385$177,513—
Computer and Information Sciences, General.325$202,642—
Finance and Financial Management Services.304$106,265$14,208
Public Health.297$65,780$16,490
Economics.287$92,399$14,166
Communication and Media Studies.281$68,260$16,433
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.280$72,792$14,814
Information Science/Studies.272$178,595—

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 16,933 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (3,054) · university teacher (1,230) · computer scientist (622) · basketball player (543) · academic (419) · civil engineer (329) · writer (303) · chemical engineer (296)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. Medicine 1971
  • George Stigler Economics 1982
  • George H. Hitchings Medicine 1988
  • Martin Rodbell Medicine 1994
  • Robert Mundell Economics 1999
  • Linda B. Buck Medicine 2004
  • Jeffrey C. Hall Medicine 2017
  • Mary E. Brunkow Medicine 2025

The portrait wall

Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Also recorded: George Stigler.

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359910597), CC BY-SA 4.0.