University of Wisconsin-Madison admissions

Public universities · WI. Fall 2023 first-year figures from federal (IPEDS) data. Wisconsin does not publish admissions by high school, so these figures cover all applicants.

In fall 2023, University of Wisconsin-Madison admitted 27,529 of 63,505 applicants (43%). Its admit rate was 54% in fall 2019 and 43% in fall 2023. 7% of its first-year students in fall 2023 were California residents. 7 California high schools list Wisconsin among the colleges their graduates enrolled in.

Admit rate

43%

27,529 admitted of 63,505 applicants

Yield

29%

7,964 admitted students enrolled

SAT, middle 50%

1360–1510

Reading and math combined, among students who submitted scores

ACT, middle 50%

28–32

Composite, among students who submitted scores

By year

Fall	Applicants	Admitted	Admit rate	Enrolled	SAT	ACT
2023	63,505	27,529	43%	7,964	1360–1510	28–32
2022	60,214	29,539	49%	8,628	1340–1510	26–32
2021	53,781	32,459	60%	8,465	1320–1500	26–32
2020	45,915	26,286	57%	7,306	1260–1460	27–32
2019	43,896	23,886	54%	7,550	1300–1480	27–32

A dash means IPEDS has no figure for that year, e.g. test ranges while the college was test-optional.

Where first-year students come from

Where Wisconsin's first-year students lived when admitted, fall 2023.

Wisconsin fall 2023 first-year students by residence
Lived in	Enrolled	Share
California	526	7%
Elsewhere in the U.S.	6,762	85%
Abroad	675	8%

Enrolled students only: the federal data has no applicants or admits by residency. Colleges report this in even-numbered years, and some in odd years too, so the newest year shown may be older than the figures above. Abroad means living outside the U.S. when admitted, not citizenship; students whose residence was not reported are left out. Source: U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS).

California high schools that report graduates here

Graduates of 7 California high schools are reported here, from the schools’ own published lists.