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Whitman College
Whitman College, founded in 1859, is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the Pacific Northwest, and its small size — fewer than 1,700 undergraduates — combined with a location in Walla Walla, a small city increasingly known nationally for its wine industry, gives the college a distinctive rural-but-culturally-active setting. The college's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college west of the Mississippi, funding need-based financial aid and research opportunities that let Whitman compete for top applicants against better-known East Coast liberal arts colleges. Whitman's Semester in the West program, an off-campus academic program that takes students on an extended field-based study of public lands and environmental policy across the American West, reflects the college's particular strength in environmental studies and its Pacific Northwest regional identity. The college's close faculty-student ratio and its reputation for sending a high proportion of graduates on to competitive graduate and professional programs have made Whitman the clear top choice among students specifically seeking a small liberal arts college experience within Washington State.
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University of Washington
The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is one of the top public research universities in the country, and its medical school has ranked among the top handful nationally for primary care training for decades, reflecting the university's deliberate focus on training physicians for the vast rural areas of the Pacific Northwest it serves. UW's computer science and engineering programs have built especially strong reputations, benefiting directly from the university's proximity to Seattle's concentration of major technology employers, several of which — including Microsoft — were co-founded or staffed early on by UW graduates and now maintain deep recruiting and research partnerships with the school. The university's research funding, regularly ranking among the top handful of American universities for total federal research dollars received, funds significant work at UW Medicine and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, the latter named for the Microsoft co-founder whose foundation has been one of the university's largest donors. UW's Seattle campus, centered on the Drumheller Fountain with a clear view of Mount Rainier on clear days, combined with the university's research scale and relatively affordable in-state public tuition, has made it the preferred choice for Washington State students seeking a major research university experience without leaving the state.
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