The University of Washington, regularly alluded to as Washington or casually U-Dub, or locally as UW is an open leader examination college situated in Seattle, Washington, United States. Established in 1861, UW is one of the most seasoned colleges on the West Coast and highlights a standout amongst the most exceptionally respected restorative schools in the world.

The college has three grounds: the essential and biggest in the University District of Seattle and two others in Tacoma and Bothell. Its working costs and explore spending plan for financial year 2014–15 is relied upon to be $6.4 billion.The UW possesses more than 500 structures, with more than 20 million gross square footage of space, including the University of Washington Plaza, comprising of the 325-foot (99 m) UW Tower and meeting focus. 

Washington is a chosen individual from the Association of American Universities, and its examination spending plan is among the most noteworthy in the United States. In sports, the college contends in the NCAA Division I Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12).

Campus

The University of Washington, Seattle grounds, is arranged on the shores of Union and Portage Bays, with perspectives of the Cascade Range toward the east and the Olympic Mountains toward the west. The principle grounds is limited on the west by fifteenth Avenue N.E., on the north by N.E. 45th Street, on the east by Montlake Boulevard N.E., and on the south by N.E. Pacific Street. East Campus extends east of Montlake Boulevard to Laurelhurst and is to a great extent taken up by wetlands and sports fields. South Campus involves the area between Pacific Street and the Lake Washington Ship Canal which used to be a green and is offered over to the wellbeing sciences, oceanography, fisheries, and the University of Washington Medical Center. West Campus is to a lesser degree a different element than the others, a large portion of its offices being on city roads, and extends between fifteenth Avenue and Interstate 5 from the Ship Canal to N.E. 41st Street. College Way, referred to locally as "The Ave", lies adjacent and is a center for much understudy life at the college. At the heart of the college lies Red Square, which works as the focal center of understudy collaboration and has an assortment of occasions yearly.

Undergraduate admissions

The University of Washington's affirmations procedure is "more particular" as indicated by U.S. News and World Report. For understudies entering Fall 2014, 17,451 rookies were acknowledged out of 31,611 candidates, a 55.2% acknowledgment rate, and 6,361 enrolled.

Among first year recruit understudies who selected in Fall 2014, SAT scores for the center half ran from 540–660 for basic perusing, 580–700 for math, and 450–660 for writing. ACT composite scores for the center half extended from 25–31.The center half of secondary school GPA ran from 3.64-9.93.

Reputation and Rankings

In universal rankings University of Washington was positioned fifteenth among the world's main 500 colleges by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2015 and has been reliably respected to be among the main 20 by the institution. In Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2015–16), it positioned 32nd worldwide[52] and its World Reputation Rankings of that year considered it to be 33rd.  Meanwhile, QS World University Rankings (2015/16) positioned it 65th globally.

In U.S. rankings U.S. News and World Report positioned UW's undergrad program tied for 52nd among "national colleges" and tied for sixteenth among state funded colleges in its 2016 rankings. Among graduate projects, in 2015 U.S. News positioned UW's projects in essential care in the first place, family pharmaceutical initially, rustic prescription to begin with, clinical brain science second, library and data sciences third, social work third, measurements third (Department of Biostatistics) and seventh (Department of Statistics), nursing fourth, software engineering 6th, general wellbeing 6th, instruction 6th, drug store tenth, research solution tenth, business 23rd, building 27th and law 28th. In the Washington Monthly National University Rankings, University of Washington positioned seventh in 2015. The Top American Research Universities positioned University of Washington eleventh among the main 50 American colleges in 2010 distributed by The Center for Measuring University Performance, Arizona State University.

Rankings distributed by organizations of different spots: Leiden Ranking (2013) distributed by Leiden University of Netherlands positioned University of Washington 27th among the world 500 noteworthy universities. In 2011, University of Washington positioned eighth among the world 2,000 colleges in University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) distributed by Middle East lTechnical University. in the meantime, the Top 200 Colleges and Universities in the World on University Web Ranking distributed by 4 International Colleges and Universities set it at 8th.

Athletics

UW understudies, sports groups, and graduated class are called Washington Huskies, and regularly alluded to metonymically as "Montlake," because of the grounds' area on Montlake Boulevard N.E  (It ought to be noticed that the conventional limits of the Montlake neighborhood don't expand north of the Montlake Cut to incorporate the grounds.) The imposing was chosen as the school mascot by understudy board in 1922. It supplanted the "Sun Dodger," a dynamic reference to the nearby climate that was immediately dropped for something more unmistakable. The costumed "Harry the Husky" performs at brandishing and extraordinary occasions, and a live Alaskan Malamute, as of now named Dubs, has customarily driven the UW football group onto the field toward the begin of amusements. The school shades of purple and gold were embraced in 1892 by understudy vote. The decision was roused by the first stanza of Lord Byron's The Destruction of Sennacherib:

The Assyrian descended like the wolf on the fold, 

What's more, his partners were sparkling in purple and gold; 

What's more, the sheen of their lances was similar to stars on the ocean, 

At the point when the blue wave rolls daily on profound Galilee.

Associated Students of the Univerisity of Washington

The Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW) is one of two Student Governments at the University of Washington, the other being the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. It is subsidized and bolstered by understudy expenses, and gives benefits that straightforwardly and in a roundabout way advantage them. The ASUW utilizes more than 72 current University of Washington understudies, has more than 500 volunteers, and burns through $1.03 million every year to give administrations and exercises to the understudy assortment of 43,000 on campus.The Student Senate was built up in 1994 as a division of the Associated Students of the University of Washington. Understudy Senate is one of two authority understudy represented bodies and gives an expansive based dialog of issues. Right now, the ASUW Student Senate has an administrative assemblage of more than 150 representatives speaking to a various arrangement of hobbies on and off campus.

The ASUW was fused in the State of Washington on April 20, 1906.[104] On April 30, 1932 the ASUW helped with the consolidation of the University Bookstore which has been in persistent operation at the same area on University Way for more than 70 years. The ASUW Experimental College, a portion of the ASUW, was made in 1968 by a few University of Washington understudies trying to give the grounds and encompassing group with a determination of classes not offered on the college educational programs.