October 30, 2025
Washington residents make up nearly two-thirds of incoming class as enrollment increases across all three UW campuses
Total enrollment is up across all three University of Washington campuses for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the annual census count released this month.
Each year, the UW conducts an official enrollment count after the start of the fall quarter. The total number of students across all three campuses is 63,727.
Enrollment increased 1.1% to 52,316 at the UW’s Seattle campus, up from 51,719 in 2024. Total enrollment at UW Bothell jumped to 6,361 students, up 4.7% from 2024. UW Tacoma’s enrollment climbed to 5,059, a 1.6% increase over last year.
This year’s incoming class had a total of 12,126 first-year and transfer students enrolled across all three campuses, with 7,129 first-year students at the UW in Seattle, 1,157 at UW Bothell and 737 enrolled at UW Tacoma.
There are 1,685 new transfer students at the UW in Seattle, 649 at UW Bothell and 769 at UW Tacoma. Transfer students include those from community colleges in Washington and other states as well as other four-year institutions.
Washington residents make up 74.1% of the incoming class across all three campuses, which is similar to recent years. Of these students, 5,875 of the incoming first-year and transfer students at the UW in Seattle are Washington residents. At UW Bothell, 1,709 incoming first-year and transfer students are Washington residents. There are 1,403 Washington residents among the incoming first-year and transfer students at UW Tacoma.
The number of Washington community college transfer students entering the UW across all three campuses this fall was 2,517, an increase on all three campuses: 1,399 in Seattle, 505 in Bothell and 613 in Tacoma.
There are 7,893 international students enrolled across the three campuses, an approximate 7% drop from last year. Of those, 7,439 are in Seattle, 258 are at UW Bothell and 197 are at UW Tacoma. The decline is similar to the trend seen across the country this year.
Of the 63,727 enrolled students across all three campuses, 46,079 are undergraduates and 17,648 are pursuing graduate or professional degrees.
The enrollment count — a snapshot in time — will later be presented to the UW Board of Regents.
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