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Faculty and Staff
- More than 5,200 Faculty and Staff (Spring 2025)
Students
- Total enrolled students: 24,123 (2024)
- 19,635 enrolled undergraduates (2024)
- 4,488 enrolled graduate students, clinical, & doctoral students combined (2024)
Credit Hours
- 730,856 Total Hours (2023-24)
- 63.8% of UW-Madison undergraduate credit hours (2023-2024)
Academic Offerings
The College of Letters & Science is comprised of more than 34 academic departments, 10 non-academic departments, 73 centers and institutes, and 5 professional schools across four broad divisions: arts and humanities, computer, data & information sciences, physical and natural sciences, and the social sciences.
Popular Majors
L&S offers 85 majors. Four of the top five of UW Madison's most popular majors are in L&S (2023-24).
- Computer Sciences
- Economics
- Psychology
- Data Science
- Finance, Investment, and Banking (School of Business)
Total Degrees Conferred
- 4,006 undergraduate degrees (2023-24)
- 1,386 graduate and professional degrees (2023-24)
- 5,392 total degrees (2023-24)
Average L&S Undergraduate Time to Degree
Students who entered as full-time, first-time freshmen averaged 3.81 years to receive their degree. (2023-24)
Alumni
As of January 2024, there are more than 216,847 alumni of L&S. 44.2% of UW-Madison alumni.
Research Funding
Extramural Research Awards: $163.2 million (2023-24)
Federal Research Awards: $125.7 million (2023-24)
Total Research Expenditures: $212.5 million (2023-24)
Sources: UW-Madison Data Digest / Conferred Degree Reports