The University of Washington (photo below) is 8th in the world in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of nearly 1,500 universities and colleges, and “ranked 5th in geosciences; 6th in microbiology, immunology, infectious diseases and clinical medicine; 7th in social sciences and public health; 8th in microbiology, pharmacology and toxicology; and 9th in computer sciences,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on Friday, October 23, 2020. Read story here and see rankings here. In these rankings, the world’s top dozen universities are:
#1 Harvard
#2 MIT
#3 Stanford
#4 U. of California — Berkeley
#5 Oxford
#6 Columbia
#7 Cal Tech
#8 Washington
#9 Cambridge
#10 Johns Hopkins
#11 Princeton
#12 Yale
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