A total of 695 new students joined CALS this fall, including 530 new undergraduates and 165 new graduate students. 462 are new freshmen.

The Sixth Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 2,731 undergraduate students this fall, down five percent from last year. Enrollment has been decreasing since 2014, when the college had 3,653 undergraduates. Of the current undergraduate total, 67 percent are women and 33 percent are men.

CALS has a total of 943 graduate students, up three percent from last year. Graduate student numbers have been slowly growing in recent years, up from a low of 829 in 2016. Of the current grad student total, 60 percent are women and 40 percent are men.

UW–Madison enrolled 8,465 freshmen this year, up 16 percent from last year. These students were selected from a record 53,829 applicants, up 17 percent over last year.

Distribution of undergrads by major:
Agricultural and Applied Economics – 39
Agricultural Business Management – 47
Agronomy – 15
Animal Sciences – 155
Biochemistry* – 537 (344 in CALS)
Biological Systems Engineering – 161
Biology* – 1,152 (603 in CALS)
Community & Environmental Sociology – 56
Dairy Science – 43
Entomology – 14
Environmental Science* – 178 (111 in CALS)
Food Science – 69
Forest Science – 18
Genetics/Genetics and Genomics – 330
Global Health  – 236
Horticulture – 39
Life Sciences Communication – 148
Microbiology* – 185 (134 in CALS)
Nutritional Sciences – 210
Plant Pathology – 8
Soil Science – 3
Wildlife Ecology – 79
Undeclared – 58

*Joint major with L&S, CALS enrollments in parentheses