Music schools in the Northwest

I've been wading through possibly outdated information in old posts, and I thought it might be better to start a new thread to ask for current information. How are music programs at the following institutions viewed now, at the close of the decade? It would be especially nice to find programs with a good viola instructor.

In old posts, I found the following mentions.

Washington
--University of Washington - I listed this first because it gets conflicting mentions. It's good, it's "gone downhill", no it hasn't... most mentions I found are from a decade ago.
--Western Washington University - this program gets a lot of love here. The viola instructor there has perhaps the most interesting/different bio I've read so far in this search! I'm not sure what to think of it.
--Central Washington University
--University of Puget Sound
--Pacific Lutheran University - does not appear to have dedicated viola faculty

Oregon
--University of Oregon
--Willamette University

Idaho
--University of Idaho - does not appear to have dedicated viola faculty

Montana
--University of Montana - does not appear to have dedicated viola faculty

For whatever it's worth, I tend to think of it as Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and the parts of Montana that are NOT "Big Sky Country" (the parts with mountains). It seems like Colorado sometimes gets lumped into the Northwest, too, as well as northern California, Nevada, Utah. But I haven't waded through those posts.