The University of Washington (UW), regularly alluded to as Washington or casually UDub, is an open exploration college in Seattle, Washington, United States. Established in 1861, UW is one of the most seasoned colleges on the West Coast and peculiarities a standout amongst the most exceedingly respected medicinal schools on the planet. UW has been named one of "The general population Ivies," a freely subsidized college considered as giving a nature of instruction tantamount to those of the Ivy League. 

The college has three grounds: the essential and biggest in the University District of Seattle and two others in Tacoma and Bothell. Its working costs and exploration plan for financial year 2014-15 is relied upon to be $6.4 billion. The UW involves more than 500 structures, with more than 20 million horrible square footage of space, including the University of Washington Plaza, comprising of the 325-foot (99 m) UW Tower and gathering focus. 

Washington is a chosen individual from the Association of American Universities, and its examination plan is among the most astounding in the United States. In games, the college contends in the NCAA Division I Pacific-12 Conference.

The University of Washington, Seattle grounds, is arranged on the shores of Union and Portage Bays, with perspectives of the Cascade Range to the east and the Olympic Mountains to the west. The primary grounds is limited on the west by fifteenth Avenue N.E., on the north by N.E. 45th Street, on the east by Montlake Boulevard N.E., and on the south by N.E. Pacific Street. East Campus extends east of Montlake Boulevard to Laurelhurst and is to a great extent taken up via wetlands and games fields. South Campus possesses the area between Pacific Street and the Lake Washington Ship Canal which used to be a green and is offered over to the wellbeing sciences, oceanography, fisheries, and the University of Washington Medical Center. West Campus is to a lesser extent a different element than the others, a large portion of its offices being on city lanes, and extends between fifteenth Avenue and Interstate 5 from the Ship Canal to N.E. 41st Street. College Way, referred to by regional standards as "The Ave", lies adjacent and is a center for much understudy life at the college. At the heart of the college untruths Red Square, which works as the focal center of understudy association and hosts a mixed bag of occasions every year. 

A few significant movie movies were taped on grounds or utilized it as a scenery, including The Sixth Man, WarGames, What the Bleep ? Down the Rabbit Hole, and 21 and Over.

The current President of the University of Washington is Michael K. Youthful. Phyllis Wise, who had beforehand served as Provost and Executive Vice President and for a year as Interim President, was named the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2011. On February 3, 2015, it was reported that Young will be next President of Texas A&M University. 

The University is administered by ten officials, one of whom is an understudy. Its most remarkable current official is likely William H. Doors, Sr., father of Bill Gates. The undergrad understudy government is the Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW) and the graduate understudy government is the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS).