Community, Students, and Degrees

Community

Enrollment, faculty, staff and alumni (Fall 2008)
Group	Number
Undergraduate students
Freshmen	5,282
Sophomores	6,206
Juniors	7,509
Seniors	10,156
Total	29,153
Graduate students	8,710
Professional students
Law	838
Medicine and Public Health	863
Veterinary Medicine	313
Audiology	37
Pharmacy	519
Total	2,570
Special students	1,597
Total enrolled students	42,030
Employees	16,368
Faculty	2,033
Living alumni	368,522

Student Profile

By Gender (Fall 2008)
Sex	Number	Percent
Men	20,128	47.9%
Women	21,902	52.1%

By Ethnicity (Fall 2008)
Student type	Number	Percent
African American	1,230	2.9%
Asian American	2,289	5.4%
Hispanic	1,416	3.4%
Native American	325	0.8%
Total	5,260	12.5%

By Place of Origin (Fall 2008)
Place of origin	Number	Percent
From Wisconsin	23,684	56.4%
From other U.S. states	13,510	32.1%
International students	4,554	10.8%
U.S citizens from other countries	213	0.5%
Citizenship unknown	14	0.0%
U.S. citizens, country not listed	55	0.1%

Number of state and countries represented (Fall 2008)
Representation	Number
U.S. states represented	50
Countries represented	134

By average test scores and rankings (Fall 2008)
Average student rankings	Score
Average composite ACT (freshman class)	28.1
Average SAT	1897

Degrees

(Fall 2008)
Degree type	Number
Bachelor’s	6,040
Master’s	1,844
Ph.D.	773
Professional	711