University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is a public, 4-year or above institution.
From Wikipedia:
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee, UWM, or Milwaukee)
is a public urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United
States. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropolitan area
and one of the two doctorate-granting research universities of the
University of Wisconsin System. The university consists of 14 schools
and colleges, including the only graduate school of freshwater science
in the United States, the first CEPH accredited dedicated school of
public health in Wisconsin, and the state’s only school of architecture.
As of the 2015–2016 school year, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
had an enrollment of 27,156, with 1,604 faculty members, offering 191
degree programs, including 94 bachelor’s, 64 master’s and 33 doctorate
degrees.
The university is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very
high research activity”. In 2018, the university had a research
expenditure of $55 million. The university’s athletic teams are the
Panthers. A total of 15 Panther athletic teams compete in NCAA Division
I. Panthers have won the James J. McCafferty Trophy as the Horizon
League’s all-sports champions seven times since 2000. They have earned
133 Horizon League titles and made 40 NCAA tournament appearances as of
2016.
Notes
These are items that bear looking into more closely.
This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 47.9%, so approximately 1/2 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.
This institution’s full-time undergraduate enrollment has tended to decrease over time.
Overview of institution
This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.
Institution kind: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Undergrad program: Balanced arts & sciences/professions, high graduate coexistence
Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, no medical/veterinary school
Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)
Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $16,551 . This is 80% the average cost of Harvard.
Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.
Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily nonresidential
In state percentage: 87% of first year students come from Wisconsin
In US percentage: 98% of first year students come from the US
Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 47.9% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)
Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 25%
Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 24.7 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]
Student to faculty ratio: 15.8 (undergrads to all faculty)
Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice
Schedule: Semester
Institution provides on campus housing: Yes
Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 3695 students
Freshmen required to live on campus: No
Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes
Disabilities: 3.90 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.
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Comparisons
The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Indiana University-Indianapolis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Missouri-St Louis, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Portland State University, Cleveland State University
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Georgia State University, Temple University, University of Cincinnati-Main Campus, University of Illinois Chicago, Wayne State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Virginia Commonwealth University, CUNY City College, University of Toledo, University of Memphis, University of New Orleans, University of Houston-Downtown
- These institutions compare themselves to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but not vice versa: Brigham Young University, Florida State University, San Diego State University, CUNY Bernard M Baruch College, Texas Tech University, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, Iowa State University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, University at Albany, Illinois State University, Florida Atlantic University, Kent State University at Kent, The University of Texas at Arlington, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Northern Arizona University, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Boise State University, Rutgers University-Newark, Missouri State University-Springfield, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Northern Kentucky University, University of Akron Main Campus, Carroll University, Old Dominion University, Rutgers University-Camden, Wichita State University, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, University of Southern Mississippi, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, Northland College, Claremont Graduate University
Enrollment
General
Teaching
Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.
Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.
Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.
Geography
This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.
Financial Aid
Graduation
Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).
Library
Libraries are changing rapidly. Note that how institutions count digital collections may vary.
Diversity
The US Census Bureau has a diversity index that goes from 0 to 1. In their words, “A 0-value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.” This uses their formula, but with the resolution available for the federal IPEDS data (which does not separate for a given demographic group whether members identify as Hispanic or not). This metric is about heterogeneity within the population, not the proportion of the population that comes from historically excluded groups.
Following the practice of the census, the index is multiplied by 100 to give the percentage probability a random pair of individuals will have a different background. Most institutions argue that diversity is a benefit, so by default a higher number is listed as better, but there may be cases where this measure does not reflect the mission of a college (for example, 70% of the students at a tribal college or university may be American Indian: that could be low-scoring by this metric but should not be read as “bad” given the institution’s mission).
These numbers are based on the most recent year available, generally 2023, which predates effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down of affirmative action. This has often changed, sometimes dramatically, the incoming student demographics at some institutions.
Overall diversity
Freshman profile
Demographic data for first time degree-seeking students. Note that this uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Freshman geography
Test scores
SAT scores
ACT scores
Majors
This presents information on the number of majors and the median earnings one and five years after graduation for people who got a degree from this institution in that field. The earnings are for those who are working and not enrolled in further education. The earnings data (from the federal college scorecard) also has information on earnings for those categorized as ‘MALE’ and ‘NOMALE’ – for readability, these are recategorized here as “Men” and “Women”, respectively, which adopts the gender binary used in other federal data. “W/M earnings ratio” is the median earnings of women divided by men, as a percentage.