A total of 928 new students joined CALS this fall, including 678 first-year undergraduates, 89 undergraduate transfer students and 161 new graduate students. The college saw an increase of more than 20% in new undergraduate students.

The Sixth Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 3,793 undergraduate students this fall including new and returning students, up 9.8% from last year. Of the current undergraduate total, 56% are Wisconsin residents. CALS has a total of 919 graduate students, down 1.5% from last year.

UW–Madison enrolled 8,516 first-year undergraduates this year, up 6.9% from last year. These students were selected from 65,933 applicants, up 3.8% from last year.

Distribution of undergrads by major:
Agricultural and Applied Economics – 41
Agricultural Business Management – 50
Agroecology (new this year) – 6
Agronomy – 28
Animal and Veterinary Biosciences – 247
Animal Sciences (not admitting new students) – 18
Biochemistry* – 339
Biological Systems Engineering – 70
Biology* – 615
Community & Environmental Sociology – 46
Dairy Science – 30
Dairy and Food Animal Management (new this year) – 0
Entomology – 24
Environmental Science* – 143
Food Science – 71
Forest Science – 31
Genetics and Genomics – 378
Global Health  – 406
Horticulture – 27
Life Sciences Communication – 127
Microbiology – 158
Nutritional Sciences – 77
Nutrition and Dietetics – 67
Plant Pathology – 13
Soil Science – 13
Wildlife Ecology – 139
Undeclared – 77

*Joint major with L&S