Total enrollment is up across all three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campuses for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the annual census count released this month.
Each year, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ conducts an official enrollment count after the start of the fall quarter. The total number of students across all three campuses is 63,727.
Enrollment increased 1.1% to 52,316 at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Seattle campus, up from 51,719 in 2024. Total enrollment at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell jumped to 6,361 students, up 4.7% from 2024. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma’s enrollment climbed to 5,059, a 1.6% increase over last year.
This year’s incoming class had a total of 12,126 first-year and transfer students enrolled across all three campuses, with 7,129 first-year students at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ in Seattle, 1,157 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell and 737 enrolled at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma.
There are 1,685 new transfer students at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ in Seattle, 649 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell and 769 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma. Transfer students include those from community colleges in Washington and other states as well as other four-year institutions.
Washington residents make up 74.1% of the incoming class across all three campuses, which is similar to recent years. Of these students, 5,875 of the incoming first-year and transfer students at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ in Seattle are Washington residents. At Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell, 1,709 incoming first-year and transfer students are Washington residents. There are 1,403 Washington residents among the incoming first-year and transfer students at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma.
The number of Washington community college transfer students entering the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ across all three campuses this fall was 2,517, an increase on all three campuses: 1,399 in Seattle, 505 in Bothell and 613 in Tacoma.
There are 7,893 international students enrolled across the three campuses, an approximate 7% drop from last year. Of those, 7,439 are in Seattle, 258 are at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Bothell and 197 are at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Tacoma. The decline is similar to the trend seen across the country this year.
Of the 63,727 enrolled students across all three campuses, 46,079 are undergraduates and 17,648 are pursuing graduate or professional degrees.
The enrollment count — a snapshot in time — will later be presented to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Board of Regents.