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Institutional Milestones
Engineering in top 100
Seattle Pacific University’s engineering program ranked in the top 100 of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs.”
SPU’s senior design capstone course, with its unique sequence of interdisciplinary engineering subjects, mimics a high-tech incubator requiring students to work in diverse teams to develop the professional skills they need for success in the real world.
A best national university
For the seventh year in a row, Seattle Pacific was named a “Best National University” in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings for 2022–23.
SPU by the numbers 2022–23
Student-faculty ratio: 12:1
3,114
202 Undergraduate academic programs offered
19
Average undergraduate class size
SPU also ranked 33rd in “Best Value School,” which incorporates the overall ranking but credits schools for the amount of financial support made available to students with need. Currently, 96% of SPU students receive some form of financial aid. 32.60%
Students who complete an internship
Celebrating 100 years of music
On an unusually warm, spring day in 1923, students and faculty of Seattle Pacific College gathered to perform Handel’s Messiah. It wasn’t the first concert performed at the school. It was, however, the first concert of the school’s newly formed Music Department.
Over the past century, music has led the Seattle Pacific community in moments of praise, lament, worship, and reflection. For its 100th anniversary, SPU’s Music Department joined the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and ChoralSounds Northwest for a special joint concert at Seattle’s premiere music venue, Benaroya Hall, in April 2023.
