Several UW College of the Environment disciplines placed highly in two recent rankings: QS World University Rankings by Subject and U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools.
QS World University Rankings by Subject tracks an analysis, conducted by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, of 16,400 university programs at 1,500 institutions in 96 locations around the world. The University of Washington has five subjects in the top 10 in 2024, including Geology (No. 8), Earth and Marine Sciences (No. 10) and Geophysics (No. 10).
These disciplines don’t exactly match the College’s academic unit names, but they include degree offerings in Earth and Space Sciences, Marine Biology, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Oceanography. Find a complete list and read more about the methodology here.
Many of UW’s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings released earlier this month. Two disciplines in the College of the Environment ranked in the top 10: Earth sciences (five-way tie for 9th) and Geophysics (three-way tie for 9th).
A complete list of UW’s rankings and the UW administration’s current philosophy regarding the Best Graduate Schools ranking is in this press release.
