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September 24, 2026

Higher Education/System

Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy: New CROWE report: Most colleges don’t have Harvard’s admissions problem

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WisPolitics

That difference is especially clear in graduate education. UW–Madison’s Graduate School admitted 23.3% of applicants for fall 2025, but only about 39% of admitted students enrolled. International students accounted for 58% of applicants, 43% of admits, and 33% of new enrollees. Similar patterns appear at the University of Minnesota and in University of California academic master’s programs. A program can reject applicants and still compete hard for the students it admits.

UW programs rise up the ranks in US News & World Report’s Best Colleges

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The Badger Herald

The University of Wisconsin was ranked eighth among public universities and 34th among public and private institutions in the U.S., according to the 2027 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Collegesranking.

This is the highest ranking the university has received by the Best Colleges report in close to two decades, according to UW News.

Campus life

Agriculture

Where a land ethic blooms

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Aeon

Forty iron rectangles, each one blunt as a piano key, rotate into a blurring fury that hides the eight-foot-long shaft at the heart of the flail chopper. I am perched atop several tons of iron, with 80 horsepower at my command.

Health

Business/Technology

UW Experts in the News

Essay: The Flesh Eaters

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Channel 3000/Madison Magazine

I’ve been given directions to meet him at the hill behind Birge Hall, across the street from the Botany Garden on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. I pause by a concrete ramp that’s stained with black streaks. It leads to a steel door banked by a pile of dead leaves. The area seems deserted. In fact, it looks like the entrance to a fallout shelter.

UW-Madison Related

Cardinal View: State politics should matter to University of Wisconsin students

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The Daily Cardinal

For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, state politics can feel distant from everyday life. It’s easy to see all of this as a separate entity from state politics, but it is not.

The Wisconsin State Capitol building is only a few blocks away from campus, but the policies and decisions made inside seem far removed from the classroom, residence hall or student org meeting.

They are not.

UW proposes tuition freeze and exponential price increase of everything else, The Beet finds

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The Daily Cardinal

Annual tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has increased each of the last four years. On August 17, however, the UW system proposed a plan to freeze tuition from 2027 to 2029 if the state agrees to invest $190 million into the universities. Though some students may appreciate this, any sane person will surely empathize with the UW Board of Regents, as this change would bar them from the most self-satisfying part of their jobs: raising tuition.