Information for International Applicants

1. The Pathology PhD program operates within the University of Washington Graduate School. The Graduate School has application rules that you must satisfy before you can consider applying for the Pathology PhD program. You can learn more about these rules and procedures by sending an email to the Graduate School. This will generate an automatic response that includes useful information and pointers.
2. It is very difficult for us to evaluate the credentials of foreign applicants and to rank them against applicants from the universities or laboratories within the US. At the very least, it would be necessary for you to come to Seattle (almost always at your own expense) so that we can interview you.
3. The great majority of graduate students in our program are funded through interdepartmental training grants obtained from the National Institute of Health. Only US citizens or permanent residents are eligible for this funding. For this reason, we have rarely accepted non-US citizens/permanent residents into our program. The exceptions have almost always been applicants who were already working in laboratories within the Department of Pathology, or applicants who came with their own funding.