Overview

Type of School: Public, 4-year
Student Body: 41,654 students
     Undergraduate Enrollment: 29,925
     Graduate Enrollment: 11,729
     Full-Time Enrollment: 37,050
     Part-Time Enrollment: 4,604
     Men: 48%
     Women: 52%
In-State Tuition: $20,187
Out-of-State Tuition: $34,936

School Mission Statement

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is Wisconsin's comprehensive teaching and research university with a statewide, national, and international mission, offering programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels in a wide range of fields, while engaging in extensive scholarly research, continuing adult education, and public service. The primary purpose of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is to provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff, and students can discover, examine critically, preserve, and transmit the knowledge, wisdom, and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all. The University seeks to help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their highest potential of intellectual, physical, and human development. It also seeks to attract and serve students from diverse social, economic, and ethnic backgrounds and to be sensitive and responsive to those groups which have been underserved by higher education.

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