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Welcome! Whether you are a high school student, an off-campus or on-campus transfer student, a re-entry student or a returning adult student, we’re glad you’re taking a closer look at one of the top colleges of engineering in the world.
The College of Engineering is one of the best places in the world to get an engineering education. We have world-class faculty. We have an outstanding curriculum that focuses on providing you the technological tools, resources and knowledge that will help you develop solutions to problems in fields ranging from medicine to energy to manufacturing—and many more.
In the classroom and in the lab, you will study and work hard—yet you also enrich your social life by taking advantage of opportunities such as international study, field research, internships, laboratory experience, entrepreneurial opportunities and more.
As one professor said, “Our students learn how to do stuff.” We do more than teach you. We immerse you in interdisciplinary activities and offer you real design challenges—and you actually can design and build products that solve those challenges. You also will learn to present and pitch your ideas and, if you are feeling entrepreneurial, launch a company based on your product or idea.
You also can join any of more than 50 registered engineering student organizations. These orgs offer experiences ranging from international automotive competitions to student chapters of engineering professional societies. Through them, you can build and race everything from concrete canoes to electric snowmobiles; host and attend national professional engineering conferences; or engage in service projects that, for example, help residents of communities worldwide to use low-cost medical devices and implement sustainable engineering solutions.
In a college internationally renowned for its research, there also are lots of opportunities to work directly with our faculty members to propose and conduct research, and to publish and patent your results.
A College of Engineering education not only will offer you the time of your life, it will prepare you for life in the real world—your world.
Students applying to UW-Madison to be considered for direct admission to the College of Engineering need to indicate an engineering major as their first choice. Direct admission to a major means students will start in the program of their choice in the College of Engineering and will need to meet progression requirements at the end of the first year to guarantee advancement in that program.
Prospective off-campus transfer students should refer to transfer admission requirements including the General Requirements for Off-Campus students.
Ready to take the next step in pursuing your engineering dreams?
Come join us in the College of Engineering!
- College graduation rates for students who enter a degree program are more than 85 percent for all 12 engineering degree-granting programs.
- Approximately 95% of engineering graduates are working in industry (72%) or are pursuing a graduate degree (22 %) within six months of graduation.
- $62,000 is the average starting salary for an engineering graduate.
- More than 300 employers participate in the Career Connection career fair each fall and spring.
- 85 percent of all engineering majors participate in either a paid internship or eight-month co-op experience.
- On average students make more than $3,000 a month at co-ops and internships.
- The College of Engineering awards more than $1.4 million in scholarship funds to undergraduate students each year.
- Our undergraduate student body includes people from nearly all U.S. states and approximately 50 countries.
The College of Engineering is one of the best places in the world to get an engineering education. We have world-class faculty. We have an outstanding curriculum that focuses on providing you the technological tools, resources and knowledge that will help you develop solutions to problems in fields ranging from medicine to energy to manufacturing—and many more.
In the classroom and in the lab, you will study and work hard—yet you also enrich your social life by taking advantage of opportunities such as international study, field research, internships, laboratory experience, entrepreneurial opportunities and more.
As one professor said, “Our students learn how to do stuff.” We do more than teach you. We immerse you in interdisciplinary activities and offer you real design challenges—and you actually can design and build products that solve those challenges. You also will learn to present and pitch your ideas and, if you are feeling entrepreneurial, launch a company based on your product or idea.
You also can join any of more than 50 registered engineering student organizations. These orgs offer experiences ranging from international automotive competitions to student chapters of engineering professional societies. Through them, you can build and race everything from concrete canoes to electric snowmobiles; host and attend national professional engineering conferences; or engage in service projects that, for example, help residents of communities worldwide to use low-cost medical devices and implement sustainable engineering solutions.
In a college internationally renowned for its research, there also are lots of opportunities to work directly with our faculty members to propose and conduct research, and to publish and patent your results.
A College of Engineering education not only will offer you the time of your life, it will prepare you for life in the real world—your world.
Students applying to UW-Madison to be considered for direct admission to the College of Engineering need to indicate an engineering major as their first choice. Direct admission to a major means students will start in the program of their choice in the College of Engineering and will need to meet progression requirements at the end of the first year to guarantee advancement in that program.
Prospective off-campus transfer students should refer to transfer admission requirements including the General Requirements for Off-Campus students.
Ready to take the next step in pursuing your engineering dreams?
Come join us in the College of Engineering!
- College graduation rates for students who enter a degree program are more than 85 percent for all 12 engineering degree-granting programs.
- Approximately 95% of engineering graduates are working in industry (72%) or are pursuing a graduate degree (22 %) within six months of graduation.
- $62,000 is the average starting salary for an engineering graduate.
- More than 300 employers participate in the Career Connection career fair each fall and spring.
- 85 percent of all engineering majors participate in either a paid internship or eight-month co-op experience.
- On average students make more than $3,000 a month at co-ops and internships.
- The College of Engineering awards more than $1.4 million in scholarship funds to undergraduate students each year.
- Our undergraduate student body includes people from nearly all U.S. states and approximately 50 countries.