UW-Madison enrollment demographics

Photo by Caroline Crowley.

By Cate Schiller

These graphs, made with information from UW-Madison’s Enrollment report from 2020, show the out-of-state growth reflected in UW’s student body. While a large percentage of UW-Madison students come from out of state, the university still overwhelmingly supports their in-state students, with over 22,000 Wisconsinites reportedly enrolled in 2020. 

UW-Madison’s student population has steadily increased over the past few years, welcoming the school’s historically largest freshman class in the fall of 2021, and again in the fall of 2022, despite admitting nearly 3,000 less students. 

Rising undergraduate enrollment has had negative effects on the infrastructure of the city of Madison, putting the college town into an affordable housing crisis as of fall 2022.