Facts
Quick facts
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin
- Founded: 1848 (First class: February 1849)
- Campus: 938 acres (main campus)
- Chancellor: Rebecca M. Blank
- Budget: $3,606,800,000
- Research expenditure ranking (national), 2020: 8th
- Schools and colleges: 13
- Faculty and staff: 24,232
- Living alumni: 467,227
Enrollment, Fall 2021
- Undergraduate: 33,506
- Graduate: 9,772
- Special: 1,968
- Professional: 2,686
- Total: 47,932
New freshmen, Fall 2021
- Applicants: 53,829
- Admit rate: 60.3 percent
- Yield rate: 26.1 percent
Tuition and fees, 2021–22
- Undergraduate resident: $10,766
- Undergraduate nonresident: $38,654
There is an additional fee of $275 for incoming Freshman students, $200 for new Transfer students, and additional fees for business and engineering students.
International Study Abroad
- Participants: 2,547 (2018–19)
Degrees awarded, 2020–21
- Bachelor’s: 7,671
- Master’s: 2,537
- Doctorates: 1,455
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.