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Founded in 1861, the University of Washington (UW) has 48,000 students (32,500 undergraduate and 15,500 graduate/professional) and more than 2,000 full-time instructional faculty divided into 16 schools and colleges. The University’s annual operating budget is over $8 billion (inclusive of the UW Medicine health care system), roughly 5% of which comes from the state. The UW is one of the nation’s premier research-intensive universities. For more than 40 years, UW has ranked annually among the top five institutions in federal research obligations. The UW faculty includes more than 175 members of the National Academies, 17 MacArthur Fellows, 6 winners of the National Medal of Science, and 7 Nobel Prize winners. Programs from across the campus are ranked among the best in their fields.

The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering began as an inter-college graduate program in 1967. In 1975 an undergraduate program in Computer Science was added and departmental status was conferred. A second undergraduate program, in Computer Engineering, was added in 1989 when the department moved to the College of Engineering. A Professional Master’s Program was added in 1996, and a combined Bachelors/Masters program was added in 2008. In 2017 – our 50th anniversary year – the University of Washington Board of Regents voted to create the Paul G.

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, elevating our status within the university and linking us in perpetuity with the internationally renowned investor, philanthropist and computing pioneer. The Allen School is widely regarded as among the most distinguished programs in the nation. We have roughly 100 full-time faculty, 130 technical and administrative staff members, over 600 graduate students (350 in the full-time PhD program, 200 in the Professional Masters Program, and 75 in the Bachelors/Masters program),... Allen School faculty are widely recognized as among the top in their fields. Forty-three current faculty members have won Presidential/NSF Young Investigator Awards or NSF CAREER Awards. Six faculty members are ONR Young Investigator Award recipients.

Five – plus five former faculty – have held NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow or Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Awards. Twenty-nine have held Sloan Research Fellowships. Among current and emeritus senior faculty are nine Fulbright recipients, three Guggenheim recipients, twenty-two Fellows of the ACM, fifteen Fellows of the IEEE, two Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, five Fellows... Within the University, five faculty members have received the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, two have received the University of Washington Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, two have received the University of Washington Outstanding Public Service Award, one has received the David B. Thorud Leadership Award, one was named the University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecturer, and three have received the College of Engineering Faculty Achievement Award.

In 1999, we received the inaugural UW Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence – in essence, a departmental distinguished teaching award (see our “Reflective Statement” – as valid today as it was then). Twenty-one faculty members hold endowed positions. The Katherine and John Simpson Endowed Deanship in the College of Arts & Sciences provides flexible funding to promote interdisciplinary teaching and research across the College. The Washington State Legislature has allocated significant funding toward the construction of a new Chemical Sciences Building to accelerate research and teaching in chemistry at the UW. Faculty and students across the College are working at the leading edge of AI technology to develop research tools, applications, and pedagogical innovations in nearly every field. From confirming human rights violations to studying penguin ecosystems, many research opportunities in the UW College of Arts & Sciences are open to undergraduates.

A chemistry professor discusses involving undergraduates in her research. Allen Hatcher, emeritus professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition by the American Mathematical Society. The $5,000 prize will be presented at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle. Hatcher, a geometric topologist, will receive the award for his book, "Algebraic Topology," published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press. "Allen Hatcher's 'Algebraic Topology' has transformed the teaching of this topic with its lively mix of intuition, salient examples, and formal mathematics," according to the prize citation.

"Its careful approach and spirit of fun has attracted many newcomers to the field." The textbook is "a global classic…the source from which the majority of students worldwide have learned the subject in the last 25 years," said Martin Bridson M.A. '89, Ph.D. '91, the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. Read the full story on the College of Arts and Sciences website. Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) educates students to become leaders in the design and implementation of the computing systems that touch every aspect of modern society.

Our courses cover everything from the mathematical foundations of what computers can and cannot do; to hands-on experiences building software and hardware artifacts with a range of programming languages and tools; to advanced courses... Computer scientists and computer engineers combine creative problem-solving, rigorous design, and the creation of algorithms, software, and hardware systems to build solutions that change the world. CSE offers two undergraduate degrees: Computer Science (through the College of Arts and Sciences) and Computer Engineering (through the College of Engineering). Students working toward either degree have the same broad opportunities to take the wide array of courses that CSE offers. The Computer Science major may be more appropriate for students who are primarily interested in the design of software systems and applications, or who want to earn a double major with another College of... Applicants are considered in three groups - Entering Freshmen, Currently Enrolled UW Students, and Entering Transfers.

Admission is capacity constrained. Completion of minimum requirements does not guarantee admission. All students must make satisfactory academic progress in the major. Failure to do so results in major-level academic notification, major-level warning, and major-level alerts, which can lead to dismissal from the major and being precluded from subsequently declaring the major in a future quarter. For the complete continuation policy, contact the departmental adviser or refer to the department website. CSE offers two undergraduate degrees: Computer Science (through the College of Arts and Sciences) and Computer Engineering (through the College of Engineering).

Students working toward either degree have the same broad opportunities to take the wide array of courses that CSE offers. The Computer Science major may be more appropriate for students who are primarily interested in the design of software systems and applications, or who want to earn a double major with another College of... The Allen School has helped shape and participates in several interdisciplinary programs and other educational opportunities beyond our core degree programs, both on and off the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Other institutions in the region also have strong offerings. UW Bachelor of Science in Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences This undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Science degree through the College of Arts & Sciences is jointly offered by the Allen School and the departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics.

The UW M.S. in Data Science degree is a professional master’s program designed for students who want to begin or advance their careers in data science. The program is available full-time or part-time. It provides a practically focused, technically rigorous curriculum developed by the Allen School and multiple UW departments in conjunction with the eScience Institute. UW Master of Science in Technology Innovation at the Global Innovation Exchange Quantitative reasoning, mathematical analysis, and computational methods are becoming ever more pervasive, both in industry and...

Read More The Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences (ACMS) program is a multidisciplinary Bachelor of Science degree program in the College of Arts and Sciences, offered jointly by the Departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Statistics and... Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. It is designed for students interested in the application of mathematical and computational concepts and tools to problems in research or in the business world. ACMS degrees are offered jointly by the departments of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Statistics. Most courses required by the program are...Learn more

Courses are taught and scheduled by the contributing departments, please use the unit web sites to see when courses are offered. Questions about course scheduling...Learn more Advising Email the Math & ACMS Advising Office If you have a simple to answer question or asking about any of...Learn more The Allen School’s current UW student admissions pathways welcomes applicants who are currently enrolled at the Seattle campus of the University of Washington and have completed the required prerequisites. To be considered for the current UW admissions pathway, applicants must be currently (or previously) enrolled at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Most often these students would be ‘interest changers’ – students who came to UW with another interest in mind and later developed a passion for computer science and computer engineering.

Returning students who have completed coursework elsewhere since attending the UW’s Seattle campus are eligible to apply as current UW students. Students who are enrolled at UW Bothell or UW Tacoma should apply through our transfer admissions pathway. UW students apply to both Computer Engineering and Computer Science through a joint online application for spring or autumn admission. Applicants who satisfy the minimum academic requirements below will be given thorough consideration our the Allen School admissions committee. However, because demand exceeds capacity, the Allen School cannot offer admission to all applicants who meet our minimum qualifications. Before applying for Allen School current UW student admissions, applicants must complete a minimum of 30 graded credits & the Allen School prerequisite courses.

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