Facts about the UW

Based on the most recent statistics, UW-Madison's economic impact on the state in 1990 was $3.4 billion in direct and indirect spending (which results when money recirculates and is re-spent in the community).
Some 61 percent of the business executives interviewed in a February 1995 state-wide poll say the UW System is very important to the economy, up from 51 percent in 1991.
UW-Madison ranked third among the nation's universities in research-and-development spending in fiscal year 1993-94, with a total of $372.4 million, most of which is spent locally.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has obtained 900 patents, resulting in gifts totalling $316 million to the university, since its founding in 1925. Some 3,275 discoveries have been directed to WARF in that time.
At least 64 technology-based Wisconsin companies have their origins rooted in UW-Madison.
More than 141,000 people participated in 2,300 continuing education courses and workshops in 1994.
Some 100,000 Wisconsin citizens outside the university community use UW-Madison libraries each year.
Each year, 18,000 patients are cared for at UW Hospital and Clinics.