创办时间：1848年
所在城市：美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊市
学校性质：公立综合类研究型大学
学生总数：49,800+（本科生35,300+）
师生比：1:18
优势学科：生命科学、农业与食品科学、化学与生物化学、心理学与教育学、社会科学（社会学、政治学、经济学、传播学）、化学工程、材料科学与工程、工业工程、计算机工程、计算机科学
Mission 使命
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is the original University of Wisconsin, created at the same time Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848. It received Wisconsin’s land grant and became the state’s land-grant university after Congress adopted the Morrill Act in 1862. It continues to be Wisconsin’s comprehensive teaching and research university with a statewide, national and international mission, offering programs at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels in a wide range of fields, while engaging in extensive scholarly research, continuing adult education and public service.
威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校是威斯康星大学系统的创始校区，与威斯康星州同时诞生于1848年。1862年美国国会通过《莫里尔法案》后，该校正式获得赠地资助，成为威斯康星州的赠地大学。作为一所立足本州、面向全国乃至全球的综合性教学研究型大学，威大麦迪逊分校提供涵盖本科、研究生及专业教育的全方位学科项目，致力于开展广博的学术研究、成人继续教育与公共服务。
The primary purpose of the University of Wisconsin–Madison is to provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of this and future generations and improve the quality of life for all. The university seeks to help students to develop an understanding and appreciation for the complex cultural and physical worlds in which they live and to realize their highest potential of intellectual, physical and human development.
本校的核心使命在于营造一种学习环境，使教职员工和学生能够在此探索、批判性审视、保存并传承知识、智慧与价值观，从而保障当代与后代子孙的生存发展，提升全人类的生活质量。我们致力于帮助学生理解并欣赏其所处的复杂文化与物质世界，实现智力、体魄与人格发展的最高潜能。
It also seeks to attract and serve students from diverse social, economic and ethnic backgrounds and to be sensitive and responsive to those groups which have been underserved by higher education. To fulfill its mission, the university must:
我们力求吸纳并培养来自不同社会、经济及民族背景的学生，并对高等教育服务不足的群体保持敏感与回应。为实现这一使命，大学必须：
Offer broad and balanced academic programs that are mutually reinforcing and emphasize high quality and creative instruction at the undergraduate, graduate, professional and postgraduate levels.
提供广泛而均衡的学术项目，强化跨学科协同效应，并注重本科、研究生、专业及博士后教育阶段的高质量与创新性教学；
Generate new knowledge through a broad array of scholarly, research and creative endeavors, which provide a foundation for dealing with the immediate and long-range needs of society.
通过多元化的学术、研究与创新活动生成新知识，为应对社会当前及长远需求奠定基础；
Achieve leadership in each discipline, strengthen interdisciplinary studies, and pioneer new fields of learning.
在每个学科领域保持领先地位，加强跨学科研究，并开拓新兴学术领域；
Serve society through coordinated statewide outreach programs that meet continuing educational needs in accordance with the university’s designated land-grant status.
依托指定的赠地大学身份，通过全州协调的外展计划满足持续教育需求，以此服务社会；
Participate extensively in statewide, national and international programs and encourage others in the University of Wisconsin System, at other educational institutions and in state, national and international organizations to seek benefit from the university’s unique educational resources, such as faculty and staff expertise, libraries, archives, museums and research facilities.
广泛参与全州、全国及国际项目，并鼓励威斯康星大学系统内其他院校、教育机构以及州级、国家级和国际组织充分利用本校的独特教育资源，包括教职员工专业知识、图书馆、档案馆、博物馆及研究设施；
Strengthen cultural understanding through opportunities to study languages, cultures, the arts and the implications of social, political, economic and technological change and through encouragement of study, research and service off campus and abroad.
通过提供语言文化、艺术、社会政治经济与技术变革影响研究等学习机会，并鼓励校外及海外学习研究服务，以增强文化理解力；
Maintain a level of excellence and standards in all programs that will give them statewide, national and international significance.
保持所有项目的卓越水平和高标准，使其在全州、全国及国际范围内产生重要影响；
Embody, through its policies and programs, respect for, and commitment to, the ideals of a pluralistic, multiracial, open and democratic society.
通过政策与项目体现对多元化、多种族、开放民主社会理想的尊重与承诺。
Revised statement, adopted June 10, 1988, UW System Board of Regents
（修订声明，经威斯康星大学系统董事会于1988年6月10日通过）
Our Vision 我们的愿景
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will be a model public university in the 21st century, serving as a resource to the public, and working to enhance the quality of life in the state, the nation, and the world.
威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校将成为21世纪公立大学的典范，作为公共资源服务机构，致力于提升威斯康星州、美国乃至全世界的生活质量。
The university will remain a preeminent center for discovery, learning, and engagement by opening new forms of access to citizens from every background; creating a welcoming, empowered, and inclusive community; and preparing current and future generations to live satisfying, useful, and ethical lives. In partnership with the state and with colleagues around the world, the university’s faculty, staff, and students will identify and address many of the state’s and the world’s most urgent and complex problems.
通过向所有背景的公民开放新型教育通道，创建具有包容性、赋能型的学习社区，培养当代与后代过上充实、有益且符合道德规范的生活，本校将持续作为发现、学习与社会参与的核心枢纽。大学教职员工和学生将与州政府及全球合作伙伴携手，共同识别并应对威斯康星州和全球面临的最紧迫、最复杂的挑战。