CALS welcomed just over 600 new students this fall. Of those, about 500 are new freshmen and 103 are new transfer students.

The Office of the Registrar’s 6^th Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 3,082 undergraduate students. Out of the total, 1903 (62%) are women and 1179 (38%) are men. CALS also has 865 graduate students, split 479 (55%) women and 386 (45%) men. Undergraduate enrollment has been dropping since the 2014-2015 academic year, when it reached a peak of 3,653 undergraduate students.

Distribution of undergrads by major:

Agricultural and Applied Economics – 48
Agricultural Business Management – 72
Agronomy – 23
Animal Sciences – 163
Biochemistry* – 589 (CALS = 396)
Biological Systems Engineering – 233
Biology* – 1157 (CALS = 752)
Community & Environmental Sociology – 62
Dairy Science – 73
Entomology – 18
Environmental Science* – 148 (CALS = 103)
Food Science – 102
Forest Science – 30
Genetics and Genomics – 345
Horticulture – 44
Life Sciences Communication – 150
Microbiology* – 235 (CALS = 215)
Nutritional Sciences – 215
Plant Pathology – 17
Soil Science – 10
Wildlife Ecology – 60

*Joint with L&S

Undergraduate enrollment by major can be found in the Registrar’s 6^th Week Enrollment Report here: registrar.wisc.edu/semester_enrollments.htm.