Community, Students, and Degrees

Community

Enrollment, faculty, staff and alumni (Fall 2007)
Group Number
Undergraduate students
Freshmen 5,571
Sophomores 6,078
Juniors 7,803
Seniors 9,547
Total 28,999
Graduate students 8,860
Professional students
Law 881
Medicine and Public Health 819
Veterinary Medicine 313
Audiology 32
Pharmacy 518
Total 2,563
Special students 1,619
Total enrolled students 42,041
Employees 16,255
Faculty 2,054
Living alumni 362,577

Student Profile

By Gender (Fall 2007)
SexNumberPercent
Men19,94247.4%
Women22,09952.6%
By Ethnicity (Fall 2007)
Student typeNumberPercent
African American1,1952.8%
Asian American2,2875.4%
Hispanic1,3423.2%
Native American2870.7%
Total5,11112.1%
By Place of Origin (Fall 2007)
Place of originNumberPercent
From Wisconsin23,93156.9%
From other U.S. states13,52032.2%
International students4,29910.2%
Number of state and countries represented (Fall 2007)
RepresentationNumber
U.S. states represented50
Countries represented134
By average test scores and rankings (Fall 2007)
Average student rankingsScore
Average composite ACT (freshman class)27.6
Average SAT1884
Average high school class percentile rank89.6

Degrees

(Fall 2007)
Degree typeNumber
Bachelor’s6,265
Master’s1,842
Ph.D.648
Professional654