A total of 770 new students joined CALS this fall, including 578 new undergraduates and 192 new graduate students. 501 are new freshmen.

The Sixth Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 2,781 undergraduate students this fall, up 1.8 percent from last year. Enrollment has been decreasing since 2014, when the college had 3,653 undergraduates. Of the current undergraduate total, 69 percent are women and 31 percent are men.

CALS has a total of 952 graduate students, up one 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 8,628 freshmen this year, up 2 percent from last year. These students were selected from a record 60,260 applicants, up 12 percent over last year.

Distribution of undergrads by major:
Agricultural and Applied Economics – 46
Agricultural Business Management – 57
Agronomy – 23
Animal Sciences – 149
Biochemistry* – 517 (279 in CALS)
Biological Systems Engineering – 114
Biology* – 1,154 (532 in CALS)
Community & Environmental Sociology – 44
Dairy Science – 39
Entomology – 21
Environmental Science* – 208 (118 in CALS)
Food Science – 72
Forest Science – 21
Genetics/Genetics and Genomics – 359
Global Health  – 357
Horticulture – 43
Life Sciences Communication – 166
Microbiology* – 159 (102 in CALS)
Nutritional Sciences – 209
Plant Pathology – 10
Soil Science – 9
Wildlife Ecology – 99
Undeclared – 64

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