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UWM campus (background, upper left) and East Milwaukee. The 104-acre (42 ha) UWM campus is located in a residential area on Milwaukee’s upper East Side. The campus is five blocks from the shoreline of Lake Michigan, and is less than a ten-minute drive from downtown Milwaukee. The Milwaukee County Transit System provides the campus with access ...
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee at Waukesha is a two-year college located in Waukesha, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. A branch campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, it is part of the University of Wisconsin System. Like the other 2-year UW campuses, UWM at Waukesha's land and buildings belong to a local government unit, in ...
The University of Wisconsin was created by the state constitution in 1848, and held its first classes in Madison in 1849. In 1956, pressed by the growing demand for a large public university that offered graduate programs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city, Wisconsin lawmakers merged Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee (WSCM) and the University of Wisconsin–Extension's Milwaukee ...
The first commencement of the new University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was held on June 16, 1957. On June 13, 1958, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor Frank P. Zeidler was the first person to receive an honorary doctorate from the university. Enrollment grew from 6,195 in 1956 to 9,354 in 1962 and new academic programs, colleges and schools were ...
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee academics. The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee is a doctoral-degree granting public research university that consists of 14 colleges and schools, and 70 academic centers, institutes and laboratory facilities. It offers a total of 180 degree programs, including 94 bachelor 's, 53 master 's and 32 doctorate ...
This spring, 672 students were enrolled at the Waukesha campus. In 2018, when UW-Milwaukee absorbed oversight of the campus as part of a UW System-wide restructuring, enrollment topped nearly 1,800.
Home court: UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena (three games, including the exhibition game Monday, Nov. 4, will be played on campus at the Klostche Center). Tickets: 414-229-5886. 2023-24 season.
Wagner and Rasman also enjoy having UWM's campus within walking distance, with a library and community events like movie screenings. More: About Milwaukee's Oak Leaf Trail.