UW Ranked 11th Best Public University by U.S. News

UW Press Release
August 17, 2007

The University of Washington is tied for the 11th best public university in the most recent edition of America's Best Colleges released Aug. 17 by U.S. News & World Report. The UW was tied for 42nd overall among national universities both public and private, the same rank it held last year.

The magazine named Princeton the top university in the nation and the University of California, Berkeley, the top public university. The other top publics are Virginia (2nd), UCLA and Michigan (tied at 3rd), North Carolina (5th), William and Mary (6th), Georgia Tech (7th), Wisconsin (8th), UC-San Diego (9th) and Illinois (10th). The UW shared 11th place with UC-Davis.

U.S. News also ranked the UW's undergraduate program in engineering at 20 and the undergraduate program in business at 25.

Last year, Newsweek ranked the University of Washington 22nd among the best "global" universities in the world. Counting only public research universities in the U.S., the UW ranked fifth.

Earlier rankings by Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, published in the Economist magazine, ranked the UW as the 17th best university among the world's leading research universities.

U.S. News relies on seven categories of information in its assessment:

• Assessment by administrators at peer institutions
• Retention of students
• Faculty resources
• Student selectivity
• Financial resources
• Alumni giving
• Graduation rate

Additional information is at www.usnews.com.