This fall, 6,270 new freshmen began calling UW-Madison home, contributing to a fall 2015 total enrollment of 43,405 students, a slight increase from 2014, according to a university release.
Of the new class, about 3,000—roughly half—didn’t have to travel far to get to Madison as they are Wisconsin natives.
First generation college students make up 15.4 percent of the newest class, according to the release.
Although students enrolled this year come from more than 120 countries worldwide and all 50 states, only 10 percent of the class of 2019 identify as either African-American, American Indian, southeast Asian-American, Hispanic or Latino.
This semester UW-Madison also took in the largest number of transfer students campus has seen since 2011. Most of the 1,269 students transferred from other Wisconsin institutions, either other four-year universities or technical schools like Madison College.
