University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Founded in 1848. The first building wasn’t constructed until 1851, so student met in makeshift classrooms elsewhere in Madison until then.
- 2005 enrollment: 41,169
- 2004-2005 Budget: $1,897,900,000
- Federal funds: $526,300,000 (27.7%)
- Gifts, grants and segregated funds: $372,500,000 (19.6%)
- State general purpose revenue: $369,700,000 (19.5%)
- Chancellor: John D. Wiley
- Vitamins A, B and D were all discovered at the UW.
- School colors: cardinal and white
- Total living alumni: 350,156
- Alumni in Wisconsin: 128,360 (37%)
- In 2005, more than half (53%) of the freshmen were in the top 10% of their high school class, had an ACT score of 27.5 and an SAT score of 1,261.
- US News and World Report ranked UW-Madison as the eighth-best public school in the nation in 2005.
- UW-Madison is tied with Harvard for producing the most Fortune 500 CEOs (Bloomberg Markets 2004)
