The agency's National Center for Education Statistics shows the public institution in Madison conferred 1043 bachelor's degrees and 372 certificates in business, management, marketing, and related support services programs.
But the single most popular program was for a bachelor's degree in general biology/biological sciences. Data shows the school gave out 436 bachelor's degrees in general biology/biological sciences, followed by 420 bachelor's degrees in general economics and 319 certificates in "other" health professions and related clinical sciences.
The university enrolled 43,463 students for 2017-18, including 31,705 in undergraduate programs and 11,758 in graduate programs.
Degrees awarded for 2017-18
| Program | Bachelor's degrees awarded | Graduate and professional degrees awarded | Certificates awarded | Total degrees and certificates awarded | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting | 119 | 132 | - | 251 | |
| Finance, General | 221 | 27 | - | 248 | |
| Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies | - | - | 232 | 232 | |
| Business/Commerce, General | - | 102 | 117 | 219 | |
| Marketing/Marketing Management, General | 177 | 36 | - | 213 | |
| Retailing and Retail Operations | 103 | - | - | 103 | |
| Real Estate | 85 | 15 | - | 100 | |
| Business Administration and Management, General | 87 | 8 | - | 95 | |
| Financial Planning and Services | 77 | - | - | 77 | |
| Insurance | 63 | 2 | - | 65 | |
| Actuarial Science | 46 | - | 3 | 49 | |
| Operations Management and Supervision | 35 | - | - | 35 | |
| Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other | - | - | 20 | 20 | |
| International Business/Trade/Commerce | 19 | - | - | 19 | |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, Other | - | 13 | - | 13 | |
| Management Information Systems, General | 11 | - | - | 11 | |
| Management Science | - | 10 | - | 10 | |
| Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General | - | - | - | - | |
| Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services total | 1,043 | 345 | 372 | 1,760 | 12.9 |
| Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other | - | - | 319 | 319 | |
| Medicine | - | 189 | - | 189 | |
| Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse | 168 | 5 | 3 | 176 | |
| Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist | 84 | 25 | 14 | 123 | |
| Pharmacy | - | 121 | - | 121 | |
| Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling/Counselor | 91 | 28 | - | 119 | |
| Veterinary Medicine | - | 89 | - | 89 | |
| Physician Assistant | - | 76 | - | 76 | |
| Pharmaceutical Sciences | 69 | - | - | 69 | |
| Physical Therapy/Therapist | - | 40 | - | 40 | |
| Nursing Practice | - | 39 | - | 39 | |
| Public Health, General | - | 33 | - | 33 | |
| Health/Medical Physics | - | 33 | - | 33 | |
| Occupational Therapy/Therapist | - | 26 | - | 26 | |
| Athletic Training/Trainer | 24 | - | - | 24 | |
| Veterinary Pathology and Pathobiology | - | 18 | - | 18 | |
| Audiology/Audiologist | - | 14 | - | 14 | |
| Pharmaceutics and Drug Design | - | 9 | - | 9 | |
| Community Health and Preventive Medicine | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Clinical Nutrition/Nutritionist | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Pharmacy Administration and Pharmacy Policy and Regulatory Affairs | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology/Technologist | - | - | 5 | 5 | |
| Medical Scientist | - | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration, Other | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Dance Therapy/Therapist | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services, Other | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Public Health Education and Promotion | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Health Professions and Related Programs total | 436 | 772 | 350 | 1,558 | 11.4 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 170 | 59 | - | 229 | |
| Civil Engineering, General | 142 | 50 | - | 192 | |
| Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 96 | 88 | - | 184 | |
| Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 107 | 40 | - | 147 | |
| Industrial Engineering | 102 | 44 | - | 146 | |
| Chemical Engineering | 99 | 22 | - | 121 | |
| Materials Engineering | 48 | 44 | - | 92 | |
| Agricultural Engineering | 61 | 5 | - | 66 | |
| Engineering, General | - | 35 | 26 | 61 | |
| Engineering Mechanics | 42 | 13 | - | 55 | |
| Computer Engineering, General | 55 | - | - | 55 | |
| Nuclear Engineering | 19 | 28 | - | 47 | |
| Engineering, Other | 7 | - | 39 | 46 | |
| Geological/Geophysical Engineering | 30 | 4 | - | 34 | |
| Systems Engineering | - | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Engineering Physics/Applied Physics | 2 | - | - | 2 | |
| Engineering total | 980 | 438 | 66 | 1,484 | 10.9 |
| Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 436 | - | 86 | 522 | |
| Biochemistry | 162 | 22 | - | 184 | |
| Neuroscience | 114 | 11 | - | 125 | |
| Microbiology, General | 84 | 33 | - | 117 | |
| Genetics, General | 73 | 22 | - | 95 | |
| Zoology/Animal Biology | 71 | 12 | - | 83 | |
| Molecular Biology | 32 | 11 | - | 43 | |
| Conservation Biology | 28 | - | - | 28 | |
| Biotechnology | - | 17 | - | 17 | |
| Pharmacology and Toxicology | 17 | - | - | 17 | |
| Botany/Plant Biology | 8 | 8 | - | 16 | |
| Plant Pathology/Phytopathology | 9 | 3 | - | 12 | |
| Plant Genetics | - | 11 | - | 11 | |
| Endocrinology | - | 9 | - | 9 | |
| Bioinformatics | - | 3 | 6 | 9 | |
| Biophysics | - | 9 | - | 9 | |
| Pathology/Experimental Pathology | - | 8 | - | 8 | |
| Epidemiology | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| Human/Medical Genetics | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| Environmental Toxicology | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| Entomology | 3 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| Pharmacology | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Physiology, General | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Oncology and Cancer Biology | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Biometry/Biometrics | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Microbiology and Immunology | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Biological And Biomedical Sciences total | 1,037 | 214 | 92 | 1,343 | 9.9 |
| Economics, General | 420 | - | - | 420 | |
| Political Science and Government, General | 178 | 26 | 1 | 205 | |
| Econometrics and Quantitative Economics | - | 152 | - | 152 | |
| Criminology | - | - | 120 | 120 | |
| Sociology | 74 | 27 | - | 101 | |
| Anthropology | 34 | 6 | - | 40 | |
| Geography | 27 | 6 | - | 33 | |
| Rural Sociology | 24 | - | - | 24 | |
| Geographic Information Science and Cartography | 8 | 13 | - | 21 | |
| Development Economics and International Development | - | 2 | 17 | 19 | |
| International Relations and Affairs | - | 15 | - | 15 | |
| Archeology | - | - | 10 | 10 | |
| Geography, Other | - | - | 9 | 9 | |
| Social Sciences total | 765 | 247 | 157 | 1,169 | 8.6 |
| Speech Communication and Rhetoric | 211 | 20 | - | 231 | |
| Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia | - | - | 200 | 200 | |
| Journalism | 156 | 18 | - | 174 | |
| Mass Communication/Media Studies | - | 13 | - | 13 | |
| Technical and Scientific Communication | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs total | 367 | 51 | 203 | 621 | 4.6 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General | 288 | 147 | 82 | 517 | |
| Computer Science | - | - | 62 | 62 | |
| Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services total | 288 | 147 | 144 | 579 | 4.3 |
| Environmental Studies | 54 | 22 | 258 | 334 | |
| Environmental Science | 54 | - | - | 54 | |
| Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management | 29 | 8 | - | 37 | |
| Natural Resources/Conservation, General | - | 26 | - | 26 | |
| Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management | - | 20 | - | 20 | |
| Forest Sciences and Biology | 11 | 6 | - | 17 | |
| Natural Resources and Conservation total | 148 | 82 | 258 | 488 | 3.6 |
| Education, General | - | - | 110 | 110 | |
| Curriculum and Instruction | - | 95 | - | 95 | |
| Elementary Education and Teaching | 79 | - | - | 79 | |
| Educational Leadership and Administration, General | - | 58 | - | 58 | |
| Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education | 1 | 20 | 33 | 54 | |
| Special Education and Teaching, General | 22 | 8 | - | 30 | |
| Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor | - | - | 18 | 18 | |
| Bilingual and Multilingual Education | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Music Teacher Education | 5 | 1 | - | 6 | |
| Physical Education Teaching and Coaching | 6 | - | - | 6 | |
| Art Teacher Education | 3 | - | - | 3 | |
| Social Studies Teacher Education | - | - | - | - | |
| Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching | - | - | - | - | |
| Education total | 116 | 189 | 161 | 466 | 3.4 |
| Spanish Language and Literature | 99 | 12 | 27 | 138 | |
| French Language and Literature | 20 | 19 | 51 | 90 | |
| Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General | 16 | 8 | 55 | 79 | |
| Chinese Language and Literature | 12 | 7 | 16 | 35 | |
| Japanese Language and Literature | 10 | 3 | 10 | 23 | |
| Italian Language and Literature | 5 | 3 | 13 | 21 | |
| Linguistics | 12 | 3 | - | 15 | |
| Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General | 7 | 5 | - | 12 | |
| Russian Language and Literature | 10 | - | - | 10 | |
| African Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | 2 | 4 | - | 6 | |
| Comparative Literature | 1 | 5 | - | 6 | |
| Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Portuguese Language and Literature | 2 | - | - | 2 | |
| Polish Language and Literature | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Latin Language and Literature | - | - | - | - | |
| Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics total | 197 | 74 | 172 | 443 | 3.3 |
| Women's Studies | 24 | 4 | 126 | 154 | |
| European Studies/Civilization | - | - | 44 | 44 | |
| Hispanic-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American/Chicano Studies | - | - | 40 | 40 | |
| African Studies | - | - | 27 | 27 | |
| Gay/Lesbian Studies | - | - | 16 | 16 | |
| Scandinavian Studies | 4 | 2 | 9 | 15 | |
| African-American/Black Studies | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | |
| East Asian Studies | - | - | 11 | 11 | |
| Latin American and Caribbean Studies | 9 | 2 | - | 11 | |
| Asian Studies/Civilization | 10 | - | - | 10 | |
| Southeast Asian Studies | - | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
| Near and Middle Eastern Studies | - | - | 6 | 6 | |
| Asian-American Studies | - | - | 6 | 6 | |
| American Indian/Native American Studies | - | - | 6 | 6 | |
| Russian, Central European, East European and Eurasian Studies | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| South Asian Studies | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Japanese Studies | - | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Folklore Studies | - | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender and Group Studies total | 51 | 13 | 315 | 379 | 2.8 |
| Mathematics, General | 123 | 45 | 84 | 252 | |
| Statistics, General | 39 | 70 | - | 109 | |
| Applied Mathematics, General | 11 | - | - | 11 | |
| Mathematics and Statistics total | 173 | 115 | 84 | 372 | 2.7 |
| Psychology, General | 285 | 26 | - | 311 | |
| Educational Psychology | - | 41 | - | 41 | |
| Counseling Psychology | - | 16 | - | 16 | |
| Psychology total | 285 | 83 | - | 368 | 2.7 |
| Chemistry, General | 66 | 78 | - | 144 | |
| Physics, General | 33 | 29 | 33 | 95 | |
| Geology/Earth Science, General | 29 | 22 | - | 51 | |
| Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, General | 10 | 25 | - | 35 | |
| Astrophysics | 14 | - | - | 14 | |
| Astronomy | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Environmental Chemistry | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Oceanography, Chemical and Physical | - | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Geophysics and Seismology | - | - | - | - | |
| Physical Sciences total | 152 | 169 | 33 | 354 | 2.6 |
| Agricultural Economics | 22 | 26 | 27 | 75 | |
| Agricultural Communication/Journalism | 58 | 4 | - | 62 | |
| Food Science | 35 | 6 | - | 41 | |
| Animal Sciences, General | 34 | 6 | - | 40 | |
| Dairy Science | 17 | 11 | - | 28 | |
| Agricultural Business and Management, General | 27 | - | - | 27 | |
| Farm/Farm and Ranch Management | - | - | 18 | 18 | |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 9 | 1 | - | 10 | |
| Horticultural Science | 7 | 2 | - | 9 | |
| Soil Science and Agronomy, General | 2 | 6 | - | 8 | |
| Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| Agricultural Mechanization, General | - | - | 4 | 4 | |
| Crop Production | - | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Poultry Science | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Agricultural Business and Management, Other | - | - | - | - | |
| Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, and Related Sciences total | 212 | 68 | 51 | 331 | 2.4 |
| Art/Art Studies, General | 56 | 39 | - | 95 | |
| Fine/Studio Arts, General | - | - | 71 | 71 | |
| Music Performance, General | 8 | 36 | - | 44 | |
| Interior Design | 30 | - | - | 30 | |
| Art History, Criticism and Conservation | 16 | 4 | - | 20 | |
| Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General | 10 | 10 | - | 20 | |
| Music, General | 14 | 3 | - | 17 | |
| Dance, General | 6 | - | 10 | 16 | |
| Fine and Studio Arts Management | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Visual and Performing Arts total | 140 | 97 | 81 | 318 | 2.3 |
| Law | - | 185 | - | 185 | |
| Legal Studies, General | 48 | - | - | 48 | |
| Programs for Foreign Lawyers | - | 37 | - | 37 | |
| Health Law | - | - | 9 | 9 | |
| Advanced Legal Research/Studies, General | - | - | - | - | |
| Legal Professions and Studies total | 48 | 222 | 9 | 279 | 2 |
| Social Work | 62 | 161 | - | 223 | |
| Public Policy Analysis, General | - | 35 | - | 35 | |
| Public Administration | - | - | - | - | |
| Public Administration and Social Service Professions total | 62 | 196 | - | 258 | 1.9 |
| Nutrition Sciences | 86 | 7 | - | 93 | |
| International/Global Studies | 67 | - | - | 67 | |
| Classical, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology | - | - | 30 | 30 | |
| Sustainability Studies | - | - | 30 | 30 | |
| Science, Technology and Society | - | - | 11 | 11 | |
| Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | 6 | 2 | - | 8 | |
| Gerontology | - | - | 7 | 7 | |
| Medieval and Renaissance Studies | - | - | 4 | 4 | |
| Intercultural/Multicultural and Diversity Studies | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies total | 159 | 9 | 83 | 251 | 1.8 |
| Human Development and Family Studies, General | 136 | - | - | 136 | |
| Family and Community Services | 47 | - | - | 47 | |
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General | - | 20 | - | 20 | |
| Apparel and Textiles, General | 14 | - | - | 14 | |
| Consumer Economics | - | - | - | - | |
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences total | 197 | 20 | - | 217 | 1.6 |
| English Language and Literature, General | 99 | 31 | - | 130 | |
| Creative Writing | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| English Language and Literature/Letters total | 99 | 38 | - | 137 | 1 |
| History, General | 89 | 31 | - | 120 | |
| History and Philosophy of Science and Technology | 5 | 2 | - | 7 | |
| History total | 94 | 33 | - | 127 | 0.9 |
| Kinesiology and Exercise Science | 88 | 11 | - | 99 | |
| Health and Physical Education/Fitness, General | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies total | 88 | 11 | 1 | 100 | 0.7 |
| Library and Information Science | - | 80 | - | 80 | |
| Library Science total | - | 80 | - | 80 | 0.6 |
| Philosophy | 34 | 11 | - | 45 | |
| Religion/Religious Studies | 11 | - | 17 | 28 | |
| Jewish/Judaic Studies | 1 | - | 5 | 6 | |
| Philosophy and Religious Studies total | 46 | 11 | 22 | 79 | 0.6 |
| Landscape Architecture | 15 | 2 | - | 17 | |
| City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning | - | 16 | - | 16 | |
| Architecture and Related Services total | 15 | 18 | - | 33 | 0.2 |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies | - | - | 10 | 10 | |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities total | - | - | 10 | 10 | 0.1 |
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