About the UW
Academic departments
From aeronautics to urban design, all of our academic departments provide you with the opportunity to go beyond the status quo.
Dream bigger, question the answer, dare to do — after all, that’s what you came here for. Start discovering the possibilities.
- Aeronautics and Astronautics
- African Studies
- American Ethnic Studies
- American Indian Studies
- Anesthesiology
- Anthropology
- Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (ACMS)
- Applied Mathematics
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Architecture
- Art, Art History, and Design
- Asian Languages and Literature
- Asian Studies – General
- Astronomy
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Biochemistry
- Bioengineering
- Bioethics & Humanities
- Biology
- Biological Structure
- Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
- Biological Physics Structure and Design
- Bioresource Science and Engineering
- Biostatistics
- Michael G. Foster School of Business
- Canadian Studies
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- China Studies
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Classics
- Communication
- Community and Environmental Planning (CEP)
- Comparative History of Ideas
- Comparative Medicine
- Comparative Religion
- Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
- Construction Management
- Dance
- Dental Hygiene
- Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS)
- Drama
- Earth and Space Sciences
- Economics
- Electrical & Computer
Engineering - Endodontics
- English
- Environmental and Forest Sciences
- Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
- Environmental Science and Resource Management (ESRM)
- Epidemiology
- European Studies
- Family Medicine
- French and Italian Studies
- Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
- Genome Sciences
- Geography
- Germanics
- Global Health
- Health Metrics Sciences
- Health Services
- Health Services Administration
- History
- Honors Program
- Human Centered Design & Engineering
- Immunology
- Industrial Engineering
- International Studies
- Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
- Japan Studies
- Jewish Studies
- Korea Studies
- Laboratory Medicine
- Landscape Architecture
- Latin American Studies
- Law, Societies, and Justice
- Linguistics
- Marine & Environmental Affairs
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant Training Program
- Medical Genetics
- Medical Scientist Training Program
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Middle East Studies
- Military Science (Army ROTC)
- Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Museology
- Music
- Naval Science (Navy ROTC)
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
- Nephrology
- Neurobiology – Undergraduate Major
- Neuroscience
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Nutritional Sciences
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Occupational Therapy
- Oceanography
- Ophthalmology
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Oral Health Sciences
- Oral Medicine
- Orthodontics
- Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
- Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
- Pathobiology
- Pathology
- Pediatric Dentistry
- Pediatrics
- Periodontics
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacy
- Philosophy
- Physical Therapy
- Physics
- Physiology and Biophysics
- Political Science
- Program on the Environment
- Prosthetics and Orthotics
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Psychology
- Public Health Genetics
- Quantitative Ecology and Management (QERM)
- Quantitative Science (CQS)
- Radiation Oncology
- Radiology
- Real Estate
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Restorative Dentistry
- Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS)
- Scandinavian Studies
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Social Work
- Sociology
- South Asian Studies
- Spanish and Portuguese Studies
- Speech and Hearing Sciences
- Statistics
- Surgery
- Undergraduate Academic Affairs
- Urban Design and Planning
- Urology