Top Universities in Washington
Below is a list of top-ranked colleges and universitiies in the state of Washington.
- Antioch University-Seattle Branch
- Bastyr University
- Central Washington University
- City University
- Eastern Washington University
- Gonzaga University
- Pacific Lutheran University
- Seattle Pacific University
- Seattle University
- The Evergreen State College
- University of Puget Sound
- University of Washington-Seattle
- Walla Walla College
- Washington State University
- Western Washington University
- Whitman College
- Whitworth College
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There are 109 colleges and universities in the state of Washington. Refer to the following table to find local schools in Washington sorted by university name. If you are interested, you can follow the link below to see its specific information. Please understand that all higher educational programs in Washington are listed here in alphabetical order.
Name of College or University | Location |
Antioch University-Seattle Branch | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Argosy University-Seattle Campus | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Art Institute of Seattle | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Ashmead College | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Seattle, WA |
Ashmead College-Everett Campus | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Everett, WA |
Ashmead College-Tacoma Campus | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Fife, WA |
Ashmead College-Vancouver Campus | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Vancouver, WA |
Bastyr University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Kenmore, WA |
Bates Technical College | Public, 2-year in Tacoma, WA |
Bellevue Community College | Public, 2-year in Bellevue, WA |
Bellingham Beauty School | Private for-profit, 2-year in Bellingham, WA |
Bellingham Technical College | Public, 2-year in Bellingham, WA |
Big Bend Community College | Public, 2-year in Moses Lake North, WA |
BJ’s Beauty and Barber College | Private for-profit, 2-year in Tacoma, WA |
Brenneke School of Massage | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Seattle, WA |
Bryman College | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Port Orchard, WA |
Bryman College | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Renton, WA |
Bryman College | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Tacoma, WA |
Bryman College-Lynnwood | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Lynnwood, WA |
Cambridge College-Seattle | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Bellevue, WA |
Cascadia Community College | Public, 2-year in Bothell, WA |
Central Washington University | Public, 4-year or above in Ellensburg, WA |
Centralia College | Public, 2-year in Centralia, WA |
City University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Bellevue, WA |
Clark College | Public, 2-year in Vancouver, WA |
Clover Park Technical College | Public, 2-year in Lakewood, WA |
Columbia Basin College | Public, 2-year in Pasco, WA |
Cornish College of the Arts | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Cortiva Institute-Brian Utting School of Massage | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Seattle, WA |
CRI Career Training | Private for-profit, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Crown College | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Tacoma, WA |
DeVry University-Washington | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Federal Way, WA |
DigiPen Institute of Technology | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Redmond, WA |
Divers Institute of Technology | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Seattle, WA |
Eastern Washington University | Public, 4-year or above in Cheney, WA |
Edmonds Community College | Public, 2-year in Lynnwood, WA |
Emil Fries Piano Hospital and Training Center | Private not-for-profit, 2-year in Vancouver, WA |
Everest College | Private for-profit, 2-year in Vancouver, WA |
Everett Community College | Public, 2-year in Everett, WA |
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Tacoma, WA |
Gene Juarez Academy of Beauty | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Seattle, WA |
Gene Juarez Academy of Beauty-Branch Campus | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Federal Way, WA |
Glen Dow Academy of Hair Design | Private for-profit, 2-year in Spokane, WA |
Gonzaga University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Spokane, WA |
Grays Harbor College | Public, 2-year in Aberdeen, WA |
Green River Community College | Public, 2-year in Lea Hill, WA |
Greenwood Academy of Hair | Private for-profit, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Henry Cogswell College | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Everett, WA |
Heritage University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Toppenish, WA |
Highline Community College | Public, 2-year in Des Moines, WA |
Interface Computer School | Private for-profit, 2-year in Spokane, WA |
Interface Computer School | Private for-profit, 2-year in Spokane, WA |
International Academy of Design and Technology | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Tukwila, WA |
International Air Academy Inc | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Vancouver, WA |
ITT Technical Institute | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Everett, WA |
ITT Technical Institute | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Spokane Valley, WA |
ITT Technical Institute | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Tukwila, WA |
Lake Washington Technical College | Public, 2-year in Kirkland, WA |
Lower Columbia College | Public, 2-year in Longview, WA |
Mars Hill Graduate School | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in North Creek, WA |
Northwest Baptist Seminary | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Tacoma, WA |
Northwest College of Art | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Poulsbo, WA |
Northwest Hair Academy | Private for-profit, 2-year in Mount Vernon, WA |
Northwest HVAC/R Training Center | Private not-for-profit, less-than-2-year in Spokane, WA |
Northwest Indian College | Public, 2-year in Bellingham, WA |
Northwest University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Kirkland, WA |
Olympic College | Public, 2-year in Bremerton, WA |
Pacific Lutheran University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Tacoma, WA |
Peninsula College | Public, 2-year in Port Angeles, WA |
Perry Technical Institute | Private not-for-profit, 2-year in Yakima, WA |
Phagans Orchards Beauty School | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Five Corners, WA |
Pierce College at Fort Steilacoom | Public, 2-year in Lakewood, WA |
Pierce College at Puyallup | Public, 2-year in Puyallup, WA |
Pima Medical Institute | Private for-profit, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Puget Sound Christian College | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Everett, WA |
Renton Technical College | Public, 2-year in Renton, WA |
Saint Martin’s University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Lacey, WA |
Seattle Community College-Central Campus | Public, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Seattle Community College-North Campus | Public, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Seattle Community College-South Campus | Public, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Seattle Midwifery School | Private not-for-profit, 2-year in Seattle, WA |
Seattle Pacific University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Seattle University | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
Seattle Vocational Institute | Public, less-than-2-year in Seattle, WA |
Shoreline Community College | Public, 2-year in Shoreline, WA |
Skagit Valley College | Public, 2-year in Mount Vernon, WA |
South Puget Sound Community College | Public, 2-year in Tumwater, WA |
Spokane Community College | Public, 2-year in Spokane, WA |
Spokane Falls Community College | Public, 2-year in Spokane, WA |
Stylemaster College of Hair Design | Private for-profit, less-than-2-year in Longview, WA |
Tacoma Community College | Public, 2-year in Tacoma, WA |
The Evergreen State College | Public, 4-year or above in Olympia, WA |
Trinity Lutheran College | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Issaquah, WA |
University of Phoenix-Seattle Campus | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Tukwila, WA |
University of Phoenix-Spokane Campus | Private for-profit, 4-year or above in Dishman, WA |
University of Puget Sound | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Tacoma, WA |
University of Washington-Bothell Campus | Public, 4-year or above in Bothell, WA |
University of Washington-Seattle Campus | Public, 4-year or above in Seattle, WA |
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus | Public, 4-year or above in Tacoma, WA |
Walla Walla College | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in College Place, WA |
Walla Walla Community College | Public, 2-year in Walla Walla, WA |
Washington State University | Public, 4-year or above in Pullman, WA |
Wenatchee Valley College | Public, 2-year in Wenatchee, WA |
Western Washington University | Public, 4-year or above in Bellingham, WA |
Whatcom Community College | Public, 2-year in Bellingham, WA |
Whitman College | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Walla Walla, WA |
Whitworth College | Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above in Spokane, WA |
Yakima Valley Community College | Public, 2-year in Yakima, WA |
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma, U.S. city, Washington, at Commencement Bay, the southeast arm of Puget Sound, 40 miles south of Seattle; 196,500 inbound (2007), included in Seattle’s metropolitan area (Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton with 3.3 million inbound 2007). Important port with large exports of timber, grain, copper, phosphates etc. Sawmills, mills, oil refineries, copper and aluminum works. University of Puget Sound, founded 1888, Pacific Lutheran University, founded 1890.
Tacoma was founded as Commencement Bay in 1864, later renamed Tacoma and granted city rights in 1883.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is a city in the state of Washington, northwest of the United States, on a property between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. The city has 724,745 residents, and is the center of the greater Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue city region with 3,867,046 residents (U.S. Census, 2017).
Business
Seattle is an important fishing port, with fur trading, large shipyards, sawmills and aircraft factories (Boeing), manufacturing of aluminum, iron and steel products and canning. Outside the city, in Redmond, is the Microsoft Corporation headquarters. Seattle has a good port with lively traffic on Alaska and the East, and is the end point for several major rail systems.
Education and culture
Educational institutions include the University of Washington, founded 1861, Seattle University (Catholic), founded 1892, and Seattle Pacific University, founded 1891. The city has both an Episcopal and a Roman Catholic cathedral. The 185-meter-high Space Needle Tower and the city’s single track were built for the 1962 World Exhibition.
History
Seattle was built in 1853 and grew up following the railroad construction in 1893 and the gold finds in Alaska. Many Norwegians and Norwegians reside here, a good many immigrants after World War II. Among the Norwegians who settled in Seattle was the world famous dog runner Leonhard Seppala.
The town is named after Seathl (born about 1790), who was the chief of Duwamish, Suquamish and other tribes in the Puget Sound area.
Bremerton, Washington
Bremerton, a city in the northwestern United States, Washington, at Puget Sound opposite Seattle; 34 100 in. (2007). Home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with docks and naval yards (1891). Founded in 1901, strong growth during World War II. The battleship Missouri, where Japan signed the capitulation in September. 1945, had fixed mooring in Bremerton until 1998 when it was relocated to Pearl Harbor.