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The University of Washington places as the #1 alternative graduate school in the West due in no small part to its massive size - more than 14,000 graduate students, over 500 buildings, and a research budget that has more than $1 billion since 2006. UW graduate students have better access to federal research funding than any other public university in the country, and has nearly 100 different top rankings from U.S. News - for its graduate programs alone! But perhaps UW's biggest standout is its medical school, which hosts one of the country's top graduate degree in medicine and is one of the most prestigious in the world.