studies, medicine and public health (School of Medicine and Public Health), public affairs, and veterinary medicine. The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as "arts and science plus profe

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1970 Sterling Hall bombing
1984 University Research Park founded to encourage technology transfer between university and businesses
1988 The Onion founded by two UW–Madison students, Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson
1998 UW–Madison's James Thomson (cell biologist) first isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells
2011 Wisconsin defeats Michigan State to win the first ever Big Ten Football Championship Game.
Academics[edit]



"Sifting and winnowing" plaque on Bascom Hall, UW–Madison tribute to academic freedom
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System, is a large, four-year research university comprising twenty associated colleges and schools.[10] In addition to undergraduate and graduate divisions in agriculture and life sciences, business, education, engineering, human ecology, journalism and mass communication, letters and science, music, nursing, pharmacy, and social welfare, the university also maintains graduate and professional schools in environmental studies, law, library and information studies, medicine and public health (School of Medicine and Public Health), public affairs, and veterinary medicine.
The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as "arts and science plus professions" with a high graduate coexistence; admissions are characterized as "more selective, lower transfer-in."[10] The largest university college, the College of Letters and Science, enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of thirty-nine departments and five professional schools[32] that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such as astronomy, economics, geography, history, linguistics, and zoology. The graduate instructional program is classified by Carnegie as "comprehensive with medical/veterinary." In 2008, it granted the third largest number of doctorates in the nation.[10][33]
Rankings[edit]
University rankings
National
ARWU[34]    17
Forbes[35]    68
U.S. News & World Report[36]    41
Washington Monthly[37]    18
Global
ARWU[38]    19
QS[39]    38
Times[40]    31
International[edit]
In the 2011, QS World University Rankings it was ranked 41st in the world and received five excellence stars.[41] It was ranked 17th among world universities and 15th among universities in the Americas in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which assesses academic and research performance.[42] In the G-factor International University Ranking of 2006, which i