A total of 1,119 new students joined CALS this fall, including 912 first-year undergraduates, 103 undergraduate transfer students and 104 new graduate students. The college saw an increase of 8.8% in new undergraduate students.

The Sixth Week Enrollment Report indicates the college has a total of 4,563 undergraduate students who are pursuing a CALS program, of which 3,905 undergraduate students have CALS as their academic home. Of the current undergraduate total, 55.4% are Wisconsin residents. CALS has a total of 783 graduate students, down 8.4% from last year.

UW–Madison enrolled 8,587 first-year undergraduates this year, up 1% from last year. These students were selected from 79,600 applicants, up 7.7% from last year. Incoming students come from six continents and two-thirds of the world’s time zones. That means students will be calling home across a 19-hour time difference during some parts of the year.

Distribution of undergrads by major:

Agricultural and Applied Economics – 48
Agricultural Business Management – 54
Agroecology – 24
Agronomy (not admitting new students) – 15
Animal and Veterinary Biosciences – 443
Animal Sciences (not admitting new students) – 2
Biochemistry – 540
Biological Systems Engineering – 170
Biology* – 788
Community & Environmental Sociology – 33
Dairy and Food Animal Management – 28
Dairy Science (not admitting new students) – 10
Entomology – 32
Environmental Sciences* – 139
Food Science – 93
Forest Science – 31
Genetics and Genomics – 392
Global Health – 537
Horticulture (not admitting new students) – 6
Life Sciences Communication – 99
Microbiology – 224
Nutritional Sciences – 74
Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics – 135
Plant Pathology – 12
Plant Science and Technology  – 20
Soil Science (not admitting new students) – 4
Wildlife Ecology – 153
Undeclared – 54

*Joint major with L&S