Go Dawgs: UW is ninth best university in the world 45 programs also made top 10 in global ranking



Click through the slideshow to see all the different programs where UW ranked within the top 10 (presented in alphabetical order). less The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) released its 2017 rankings, and UW charted in the top 10 for an astounding 45 categories – and that's not including ranking ninth worldwide.

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Another ranking of universities and colleges around the world, another ranking for the University of Washington.



In fact, The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) placed a whopping 45 programs amongst the top 10 worldwide, with the UW coming in ninth overall of the top 1,000 universities in the world.

The highest scoring program for UW was social work, which was No. 1 with a perfect score of 100. Other highly-ranked programs include oceanography and audiology and speech languages (at the No. 2 spot in both), and biomedical research methods, medical informatics, microbiology and virology (all third).

Unsurprisingly, many of the programs UW charts here are among its medical and research branches, which are fairly prolific.

CWUR's top spot went to Harvard, which had 112 categories in the top 10.

To get its rankings, CWUR used eight indicators – things such as alumni quality and employment, publications and prestige – completely independent of surveys or university data submissions. CWUR, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, also uniquely looks at the number of research articles published in “top-tier journals” in order to draw up its subject rankings.

This is just one of many surveys that have ranked the university highly: Shanghai Ranking put the UW at 15th worldwide, while U.S. News & World Report had the UW at 11th, tied with Johns Hopkins.

Take a peek through the slideshow to see all the programs where UW ranked in the top 10. You can also look at the full list of subjects or universities here.