Facts
Quick facts
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin
- Founded: 1848 (First class: February 1849)
- Campus: 939 acres (main campus)
- Chancellor: Jennifer L. Mnookin
- Budget: $3.7 billion
- Research expenditure ranking (national), 2021: 8th
- Schools and colleges: 13
- Faculty and staff: 25,297
- Living alumni: 481,778
Enrollment, Fall 2023
- Undergraduate: 35,665
- Graduate: 10,241
- Special: 2,153
- Professional: 2,574
- Total: 50,633
New freshmen, Fall 2023
- Applicants: 63,537
- Admitted: 27,527
- Enrolled: 7,966
Graduation outcomes
- Graduation rate: 89.3% (6 year, Fall 2017 cohort)
- Average time to degree: 3.84 years (2022–23)
Tuition and fees, 2023–24
- Undergraduate resident: $11,216*
- Undergraduate nonresident: $40,612*
*There is an additional fee of $306 for incoming Freshman students, $230 for new Transfer students, and additional fees for business and engineering students.
International Study Abroad
- Participants: 1,812 (2021–22)
Degrees awarded, 2022–23
- Bachelor’s: 8,094
- Master’s: 2,851
- Doctorates: 1,462
More information
UW–Madison Points of Pride (PDF)
The Data Digest, published annually by Academic Planning and Institutional Research, is a quantitative overview of trends in the students, faculty and budget of the university.
Enrollment Reports, published by the Office of the Registrar, provide detailed data about student enrollment and degrees conferred.