Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, UW

Founded in 1861, the University of Washington 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 budg d colleges. The University's annual operating budget is nearly $8 billion (inclusive of the UW Medicine health care system), roughly 5% of which comes from the State. Arial view of campusThe University of Washington 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. Humanities quadrangle in spring The Allen School is widely regarded as among the most distinguished programs in the nation. We have roughly 80 full-time faculty, 100 technical and administrative staff members, 450 graduate students (300 in the full-time program and 150 in the Professional Masters Program), and 1,500 undergraduate students (currently growing to award more than 450 Bachelors degrees per year). 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-seven 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 of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, three Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, four Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, three recipients of ACM or IEEE Field Awards, three MacArthur Fellows, four (plus one Adjunct) Allen Distinguished Investigators, and four (plus ten Adjunct/Affiliate) Members of the National Academies. Drumheller fountain 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" here - as valid today as it was then). Fifteen faculty members hold endowed positions. We strive to maintain a highly effective graduate program, two strong undergraduate programs, and an open and inclusive culture with minimal partitioning either vertically (between faculty ranks or between faculty and students) or horizontally (between research areas). ...view more