About WSU

Washington State University is a tier-one research institution with more than 120 masters degree, doctoral degree, and professional degree programs. Graduate students at WSU are at the core of important research initiatives centered around our five grand challenges: sustaining health, sustainable resources, opportunity and equity, smart systems, and national security. Bring your research passions to WSU to help untangle complex world problems and enrich the health and life of all.

What is a Tier-one Research Institution?

This means that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has ranked Washington State University in the top ten as having the highest research activity among other universities that award doctoral degrees. The rankings are based on a number of factors, including expenditures for research and development, number of research staff, and the number of doctoral degrees awarded.

We’re Statewide

As Washington State’s land grant university, WSU delivers knowledge and the benefits of research activities to people throughout the state and the world. There are hundreds of examples of how the research of our faculty and students has positively influenced business, industry, education, health sciences, government, and communities around the globe. Our Global Campus and branch campuses at Spokane, Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Everett provide opportunities for graduate students to study and conduct research at numerous locations. We also offer a number of online master’s degrees.

Doctoral student Joseph Taylor was recently awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Meet more of our graduate students in the news