WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF

public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Seattle, Wash., U.S. It was designated a Research I university by the Carnegie Foundation. It includes colleges of architecture and urban planning, arts and sciences, education, engineering, forest resources, and ocean and fishery sciences as well as schools of business, dentistry, drama, communications, international studies, law, music, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work, and graduate schools of public affairs and library and information science. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell award both bachelor's and master's degrees. Research facilities include the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, Friday Harbor Laboratories, and Pack and Lee forests. Total enrollment is approximately 30,000. The university was established in 1861 and is the oldest state-supported institution of higher learning on the Pacific Coast. The early years of the university were marked by unreliable funding and periods of suspended operations. By the 1890s, however, the university's financial support was stabilized and it began to prosper. The School of Law and the Graduate School were both founded in 1899. Several Nobel Prize-winning medical researchers and economists have been faculty members of the University of Washington.