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The University of Wisconsin-Madison (also known as UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, or UW) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 1848, the total enrollment is around 41,000 students, of whom approximately 29,000 are undergraduates.[1] A public, land-grant university, UW offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. The school is frequently called a "Public Ivy" and in 2007 U.S. News & World Report ranked UW as the eighth-best public university in the United States.[2] UW-Madison ranked second in a list of top national research universities for the 2006 fiscal year, generating more than $900 million in research, according to statistics by the National Science Foundation. From 1848 to 1956, the university was part of the higher education system in Wisconsin that included the current Madison campus, 10 freshman-sophomore centers and the statewide extensions.[3] Between 1956–1971, it was part of the then-University of Wisconsin. It became a part of the University of Wisconsin System in 1971. Wisconsin's NCAA Division I athletic teams are called the Badgers. They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, where they participate in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Wisconsin's football team won the Rose Bowl in 1994, 1999, and 2000. Its men's basketball team won the NCAA National Championship in 1941 and made it to the Final Four in 2000. Both the men's and women's hockey teams won the national championship in 2006.
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