The University of Wisconsin is divided into twenty associated colleges and schools. In addition to traditional undergraduate and graduate
divisions in engineering, education, and letters, the university also maintains professional schools in law, medicine, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy.In addition to being a highly-ranked school in education, history, and sociology, the university was
recently ranked the 2nd best college at which to get an education degree, and the 7th best public school in the United States. In
the Gourman report on undergraduate programs, the University of Wisconsin at Madison was ranked the third best public university,
right after the University of
California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Additionally, it was ranked the eighth best
university in the United States for overall strength in the undergraduate programs. It is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System.Wisconsin has been one of the leading public universities in the United States since the beginning of the 20th century and
ranks as one of the great research universities of the world. In its strength in a wide variety of academic programs, the
University of Wisconsin-Madison is rivalled by the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor.Among U. S. universities, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is frequently listed as one of the "public Ivies"—publicly
funded universities providing a quality of education comparable to the best private schools. It is often ranked among the
top
ten public universities in the United States.