University of Washington Tacoma

At UW Tacoma, you connect personally with your professors and community of students in a small-campus environment. A UW degree links you for a lifetime with the benefits of the University of Washington's 150-year international reputation for exemplary teaching and research.

Our small classes offer the opportunity for individual attention and to become involved in research and community projects in an urban environment.

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  Student life

Information and resources for current faculty and staff. Some links will require a NetID login. View a directory of UW Tacoma faculty and staff.

UW Tacoma is committed to helping students succeed. There are many resources outside the classroom that can help you with everything from study skills and writing papers to creating your own student group and finding a job after graduation.

Freshmen take courses as part of a close-knit community of students — a cohort — who take their first-year Core courses together. In the Core curriculum's small learning community, students truly get to know their professors and classmates.

The Core is an interdisciplinary approach to learning that deepens student understanding of the world and how it works. The series of courses is designed to help students develop critical thinking and writing skills as well as understanding of a wide variety of subjects. Students may earn credit in art and economics one quarter, history and sociology the next.

• Freshman admission

• Apply for freshman admission
• International students
• College planning guide
• Core curriculum
• Costs and financial aid
• Deadlines
• FAQ



• New freshmen

• Academic calendar
• Catalog
• Core cohorts for 2012-13
• Housing
• Measles immunization requirement
• New student orientation
• Undergraduate advising
• University Bookstore

• Current freshmen

• Dean's List and honors
• Enrollment verification
• Forms
• Library
• Privacy/FERPA
• Teaching and Learning Center
• Undergraduate Education Office