One of the United States' premier public land-grant research universities. 

Ranked sixth (2016) among research universities in the United States in research expenditures: in excess of $1 billion annually; ranked 28th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (2016); a place of discoveries that include Vitamin A (1913) and Vitamin B (1916); first bone marrow transplant (1968); and the first cultivation of embryonic stem cells in a laboratory (1998). UW-Madison is home to 20 Nobel Prize winners and 38 Pulitzer Prize winners.