UW college students stroll up Bascom Hill through the first day of courses for the autumn semester at UW–Madison on Sept. 4. Photograph: Bryce Richter
The College of Wisconsin–Madison was ranked thirty ninth general out of 438 private and non-private doctoral establishments and thirteenth amongst public universities within the 2025 version of U.S. Information & World Report’s greatest faculties rankings.
UW–Madison undergraduate applications obtained high 20 rankings in engineering, laptop science, enterprise, and economics, in addition to in lots of subspecialties. The Wisconsin Faculty of Enterprise’s undergraduate actual property program was ranked first nationwide.
“We’re proud that we ship a high-quality training throughout an important number of disciplines, and that success continues to be acknowledged in these rankings,” says UW–Madison Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin. “That mentioned, rankings are simply certainly one of many measures of any college’s success, together with ours.”
The rankings spotlight faculties that excel in such areas as fame amongst friends, worth, social mobility, commencement charges, college assets, standardized check scores and college analysis. Final 12 months, UW was ranked thirty fifth general in a four-way tie and twelfth amongst public universities in a three-way tie; 5 years in the past, in 2019, UW–Madison was ranked forty ninth general.
Annually, U.S. Information ranks particular undergraduate applications and specialty areas at universities. Many of those rankings contain ties amongst a number of establishments. Within the 2025 rankings, UW–Madison was rated among the many greatest undergraduate applications for:
- Enterprise, 18th general (five-way tie) and ninth amongst publics. It was as soon as once more ranked first in actual property and second in insurance coverage/danger administration. Different ranked specialties embody eighth in advertising; sixteenth (two-way tie) in accounting; sixteenth (three-way tie) in manufacturing/operations administration; twentieth in administration; twenty fourth in provide chain administration/logistics; thirty second (three-way tie) in finance.
- Pc science, sixteenth (three-way tie) general and ninth amongst public universities; ranked specialties embody eighth in laptop programs; ninth in programming languages; seventeenth in cybersecurity; twenty fifth (five-way tie) in synthetic intelligence.
- Economics, nineteenth (two-way tie) general and fourth (two-way tie) amongst public universities.
- Engineering, thirteenth general; seventh amongst public universities. Ranked specialties embody eleventh (two-way tie) in industrial/manufacturing/programs engineering; fifteenth in chemical engineering; sixteenth in laptop engineering; seventeenth in supplies engineering; twenty first in environmental/environmental well being engineering; twenty third (three-way tie) in mechanical engineering; twenty fourth (two-way tie) in biomedical engineering; twenty fifth (two-way tie) in civil engineering; twenty fifth (three-way tie) in electrical engineering.
- Nursing, twenty sixth (13-way tie) general and nineteenth (eight-way tie) amongst public universities.
- Psychology, twenty second (seven-way tie) general and eighth (four-way tie) amongst public universities.
Different classes UW–Madison scored effectively in embody:
- twentieth general “Finest School for Veterans” and thirteenth amongst public establishments.
- forty second in Undergraduate Analysis/Inventive Tasks.
- 89th in Finest Worth Faculties for the second 12 months in a row.
To see the total rankings, click on right here.
