University of Washington (Seattle, United States)

University of Washington [hudong.com]

World rank: 25

Reputation rank: 28

Overall Reputation score: 11.3

Reputation for teaching: 10

Reputation for research: 12

Bill Gates' father is one of 10 university regents at "U-Dub", one of the oldest West Coast universities, whose libraries have accumulated more than 7.3 million volumes in 150 years. This scholastic community – around 43,000 students, two-thirds of them undergraduates, working in 140 departments with about 5,800 faculty – is represented by a live mascot, Dubs the Alaskan Malamute.