Welcome to the University of Washington’s interactive global engagement map! Explore our international connections through four key areas: international students, study abroad, alumni, and collaborative research. Click on the tabs to visualize data, hover over countries for insights, and search for specific nations to learn more.
International students
This visualization shows the number of UW international students by country of origin during the last completed academic year. Students with UW-sponsored visas are included in this map.
Study abroad
This visualization shows the number of students who studied abroad in each country during the last completed academic year.
Alumni
This visualization shows UW alumni living in each country outside the U.S. This is a complete set of all alumni.
Research and publications
This visualization shows global engagement and collaboration in research. It represents the following two datasets:
- Research publications with a co-author at an institution outside the United States, identified using open source data from the Microsoft Academic Graph.
- Research awards with an international component, as identified by the investigator in UW SAGE. At the time of proposal, the investigator indicated on the eGC1 that project work will be performed internationally and selected a related country. Funds were not necessarily spent internationally.
In the future, we hope to provide more detailed information about individual projects and publications, as well as faculty affiliations.
- Partners from across the University worked together to make this project possible, including the Office of Global Affairs, UW Information Technology – Enterprise Data Services, Office of Planning & Budgeting – Institutional Analysis, University Advancement and the Office of Research.
- The publications data in the research and publications visualization is powered by OpenAlex.
- Institutional data comes from the UW Information Technology – Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
- The four visualizations represent global trends in the following areas: International students, study abroad, alumni, and research and publications.
- Click on a button above the map to view a particular visualization.
- Hover over a country to learn more.
- To learn about a particular country in detail, type the name of any country into the search bar at the top left.
- Hover over the icon to read stories or learn about alumni communities.