The Graduate Student Handbook serves as a comprehensive guide to graduate education at the University of Washington. It is designed to support graduate students in navigating the academic, administrative, and community aspects of graduate study across all three UW campuses.
Resource Type: Academic
Quantitative Skills Tutoring (Tacoma)
Quantitative Skills Tutoring offers in-person drop-in tutoring on the 2nd floor of the SNO building and online tutoring over Zoom. Subjects supported are Mathematics, Computer Science/Engineering, Science, Accounting, Business, etc.
Writing Center (Tacoma)
The Writing Center supports the UWT community with writing at all levels in an inclusive and collaborative environment. The center has professional staff members and student writing tutors representing a variety of majors.
Graduate students or undergrads working on upper-level assignments, applications, personal statements, creative writing, or disciplinary citation styles may find it helpful to work with someone with a similar background.
Quantitative Skills Center (Bothell)
The Quantitative Skills Center (QSC) promotes quantitative reasoning at UW Bothell through peer tutoring and faculty development. We aim to help UW Bothell students develop skills and confidence with quantitative reasoning by offering free services such as drop-ins and online tutoring, equipment checkout, course refreshers and software tutorials.
Writing & Communication Center (Bothell)
The Writing & Communication Center (WaCC) is a dedicated team of writing consultants here to guide you through written projects and oral presentations of all kinds. Want feedback on your paper, personal statement or slide deck? We can help!
Statistical Consulting Services (Seattle)
Faculty and graduate students in the Consulting Program of the Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics offer free statistical advice to University of Washington faculty, staff, and students through scheduled 50 minute consulting appointments during academic quarters. They provide assistance with:
- the design of studies and experiments, including the preparation of grant proposals
- data visualization and presentation
- choice and application of statistical methods, and the interpretation of results
- development of specialized statistical methods in some cases
Research Commons (Seattle)
The UW Libraries Research Commons provides a collaborative environment in which students and faculty can come together to share and discuss research, as well as get support for all steps of the research process: searching, writing, publishing, funding. The Research Commons is a place to collaborate and connect with fellow students and faculty on research projects. It is a place for workshop and presentation opportunities, and a place to discover what your peers and colleagues are researching.
Consultation services include:
- writing consultations for graduate students
- citation management help
- design help desk
- digital scholarship project help
- and more!
Odegaard Writing and Research Center (Seattle campus)
The UW Libraries Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC) offers writing tutor support, informational guides, and podcasts about writing at the graduate level. The OWRC also offers an opportunity for graduate students to join a semi-formal writing accountability group for individuals working on long-term writing projects.
UW Libraries (Tri-campus)
The University of Washington Libraries is a user-centered academic library
- welcomes over 5 million users annually to 16 libraries on three campuses and one island from Friday Harbor to UW Tacoma
- provides 24/7 online reference help by partnering with academic libraries around the world
- uses assessment tools with feedback from students, faculty and staff to shape collections and services
with rich collections,
- is home to the largest library collection in the Pacific Northwest with over 9 million books, journals, millions of microforms, thousands of maps, rare books, film, audio and video recordings
- provides online access to thousands of academic ejournals, ebooks, databases, streamed audio and video, and datasets
- supports the work of the University with world class collections that are particularly strong in STEM disciplines, Health Sciences, International Studies, Book Arts and Pacific Northwest history and culture
- as well as other physical and online collections
Learn about each campus library: