Calendar of Upcoming Reviews

Academic Program Reviews are mandated by state law and conducted at 10-year intervals according to University policy. Reviews may be conducted at shorter intervals when deemed appropriate. The following schedule lists program reviews by year.

  • Full reviews include peer review of all undergraduate and graduate programs as well as Graduate Certificate programs within the specific unit, unless otherwise specified.
  • An interim report is defined as any formal report back to the Graduate School Council in response to a prior program review.
  • A 5-year review is defined as a limited review of a graduate degree or graduate certificate program, held five years after approval by the Board of Regents.

2022–2023

Full Reviews

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Astrobiology Program
  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of Astronomy
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

College of Engineering

  • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering

College of the Environment

  • Department of Earth and Space Sciences
  • School of Oceanography

Foster School of Business

  • Foster School of Business (Including 5-Year Review of Master of Science in Entrepreneurship)

School of Medicine

  • Department of Biological Structure

School of Social Work

  • School of Social Work

5-Year Reviews

  • College of Education — Graduate Certificate in Education, Equity and Society
  • Graduate School — Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group — Graduate Certificate in Neural Computation and Engineering
  • UW Bothell — School of STEM — Graduate Certificate in Electrical Engineering Foundations
  • UW Tacoma — Milgard School of Business — Master of Science in Business Analytics

Interim Reports

  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media

2023–2024

Full Reviews

College of Built Environments

  • Department of Architecture
  • Department of Landscape Architecture

College of the Environment

  • Department of Atmospheric Sciences
  • Program on the Environment

College of Engineering

  • Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Department of Electrical Engineering

College of Engineering and the School of Medicine

  • Department of Bioengineering (Including 5-Year Review of the Master of Applied Bioengineering)

School of Medicine

  • Department of Microbiology
  • Department of Pharmacology
  • Department of Physiology and Biophysics

School of Public Health

  • Master of Health Administration (MHA, EMHA) and Health Informatics and Information Management (HIHIM, MHIHIM)

UW Tacoma

  • School of Education
  • School of Engineering and Technology

5-Year Reviews

  • College of Built Environments — Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation

Interim Reports

  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of Biology
  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of Communication
  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of English
  • College of Arts & Sciences — Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
  • College of Arts & Sciences — School of Music
  • College of Built Environments — Department of Construction Management
  • UW Bothell — School of Nursing and Healthcare Studies

2024–2025

Full Reviews

Arts & Sciences

  • Department of Cinema and Media Studies
  • School of Drama
  • Department of History
  • Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences

School of Dentistry

  • School of Dentistry

Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Interdisciplinary Second Language Studies Group — Graduate Certificate in Second and Foreign Language Teaching
  • Statistical Genetics Group — Graduate Certificate in Statistical Genetics

School of Law

  • School of Law (including Ph.D.)

School of Medicine

  • Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Medicine and Mechanisms of Disease program only)
  • Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (PhD, MOT, MP, DPT)

School of Public Health

  • Department of Biostatistics

UW Tacoma

  • School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership

5-Year Reviews

  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of American Indian Studies — Graduate Certificate in American Indian and Indigenous Studies
  • College of Arts & Sciences — Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies — Graduate Certificate in Cross-cultural Religious Literacy
  • College of Built Environments — Runstad Department of Real Estate — Graduate Certificate in Housing Studies
  • Foster School of Business — Master of Science in Business Analytics
  • Graduate School — Graduate Certificate in International Humanitarian Response
  • School of Medicine — Department of Health Metrics Sciences — Master of Science
  • School of Public Health — Department of Biostatistics — Master of Science in Biostatistics
  • UW Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology — Doctor of Philosophy in Computer and Software Systems
  • UW Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology — Graduate Certificate in Software Development

Interim Reports

  • College of Arts & Sciences — School of Art + Art History + Design
  • Graduate School — Interdisciplinary Individual (Ph.D.) Program

2025–2026

Full Reviews

Arts & Sciences

  • Department of Psychology
  • Center of Demography and Ecology — Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods
  • Department of Sociology

College of Built Environments

  • Ph.D. in the Built Environment

College of the Environment

  • School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
  • Program on Climate Change

Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Interdisciplinary Computational Molecular Biology Group
  • Interdisciplinary Human-Computer Interaction + Design Group
  • Interdisciplinary Public Critical Race Scholarship Group — Graduate Certificate in Public Critical Race Scholarship
  • Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning Group — Urban Design and Planning Ph.D.

UW Tacoma

  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

5-Year Reviews

  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of Chemistry — Master of Science in Applied Chemical Science and Technology
  • College of Arts & Sciences — Department of Disability Studies — Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies
  • School of Medicine — Department of Health Metrics Services — Doctor of Philosophy
  • School of Public Health — Department of Global Health — Doctor of Global Health (Leadership and Practice)
  • School of Nursing — Graduate Certificate in Public Health Equity
  • School of Nursing — Graduate Certificate in Global Health Nursing
  • UW Tacoma School of Education — Educational Specialist (School Psychology)
  • UW Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology — Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2026–2027

Full Reviews

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Department of Asian Languages and Literature
  • Comparative History of Ideas Program
  • Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
  • School of Music
  • Department of Physics

Education

  • College of Education

Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Interdisciplinary Global Innovation Exchange Group — Master of Science in Technology Innovation Degree Program
  • Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Group
  • Interdisciplinary Science, Technology and Society Studies Group — Certificate of Science, Technology and Society Studies

The Evans School

  • Evans School of Public Policy and Governance

School of Public Health

  • Department of Global Health
  • Nutritional Sciences Program

UW Tacoma

  • School of Urban Studies

5-Year Reviews

  • College of Education — Graduate Certificate in Psychometrics and Applied Analytics
  • Graduate School — Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering Group — Graduate Certificate in Quantum Information Science and Engineering
  • School of Medicine — Department of Medicine — Master of Science in Genetic Counseling

2027–2028

Full Reviews

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Department of Economics
  • Department of French and Italian Studies
  • Law, Societies and Justice Program
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Political Science

Dentistry

  • Department of Oral Health Sciences

College of Engineering

  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Information School

  • Information School

School of Medicine

  • Department of Immunology

Nursing

  • School of Nursing

School of Public Health

  • Department of Epidemiology

UW Tacoma

  • UW Tacoma — Social Work and Criminal Justice Program

2028–2029

Full Reviews

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Dance Program
  • Department of Geography
  • Department of Scandinavian Studies
  • Department of Slavic Languages and Literature

College of Engineering

  • Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering

College of the Environment

  • School of Marine and Environmental Affairs

School of Medicine

  • Department of Bioethics and Humanities
  • Department of Genome Sciences
  • MEDEX Northwest

Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Museology Group

UW Bothell

  • School of Nursing and Health Studies

2029-2030

Full Reviews

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Department of Applied Mathematics
  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Classics
  • Department of Communication
  • Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media
  • Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
  • Department of Statistics

College of Built Environments

  • Department of Construction Management
  • Department of Urban Design and Planning

Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Interdisciplinary Individual (Ph.D.) Program

School of Medicine

  • Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

School of Public Health

  • Department of Health Systems and Population Health (the SPH Graduate Certificates)

UW Bothell

  • School of Business
  • School of STEM
  • School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

2030-2031

Full Reviews

College of Arts & Sciences

  • Department of Art + Art History + Design
  • Department of English
  • Department of German Studies
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Physics

College of Built Environments

  • Runstad Department of Real Estate

College of Engineering

  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

College of the Environment

  • Quantitative Ecology and Resources Management Group
  • School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Graduate School Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Biological Physics, Structure and Design Program
  • Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ph.D. Program

School of Medicine

  • Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education

School of Public Health

  • Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

UW Tacoma

  • Milgard School of Business