Facts

Quick facts

Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Founded: 1848 (First class: February 1849)
Campus: 939 acres (main campus)
Chancellor: Jennifer L. Mnookin
Budget: $4.0 billion
Research expenditure ranking (national), 2023: 6th
Schools and colleges: 13
Faculty and staff: 26,755
Living alumni: 490,780

Enrollment, Fall 2024

Undergraduate: 36,902
Graduate: 10,445
Special: 2,181
Professional: 2,569
Total: 52,097

New freshmen, Fall 2024

Applicants: 65,933
Admitted: 29,784
Enrolled: 8,516

Graduation outcomes

Graduation rate: 89.5% (6 year, Fall 2018 cohort)
Average time to degree: 3.86 years (2023–24)

Tuition and fees, 2023–24

Undergraduate resident: $11,606*
Undergraduate nonresident: $42,104*

*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: 2,551 (2022–23)

Degrees awarded, 2023–24

Bachelor’s: 8,181
Master’s: 2,773
Doctorates: 1,580

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.