A total of 827 new students joined CALS this fall, including 620 new undergraduates and 207 new graduate students. 558 are new freshmen.

The Sixth Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 2,936 undergraduate students this fall, up 5.6 percent from last year. Of the current undergraduate total, 70 percent are women and 30 percent are men.

CALS has a total of 995 graduate students, up 4.5 percent from last year. Of the current grad student total, 58 percent are women and 42 percent are men.

UW–Madison enrolled 7,964 freshmen this year, down eight percent from last year. These students were selected from a record 67,979 applicants, up thirteen percent over last year.

Distribution of undergrads by major:
Agricultural and Applied Economics – 40
Agricultural Business Management – 50
Agronomy – 27
Animal and Veterinary Biosciences (new this year) – 112
Animal Sciences (final year of new student enrollment) – 86
Biochemistry* – 313
Biological Systems Engineering – 111
Biology* – 551
Community & Environmental Sociology – 43
Dairy Science – 37
Entomology – 21
Environmental Science* – 138
Food Science – 66
Forest Science – 22
Genetics and Genomics – 365
Global Health  – 390
Horticulture – 46
Life Sciences Communication – 148
Microbiology – 123
Nutritional Sciences – 210
Plant Pathology – 12
Soil Science – 13
Wildlife Ecology – 110
Undeclared – 67

*Joint major with L&S