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[[image:Bascomhall.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bascom Hill, historic center of the university, with Bascom Hall at top; on a commemorative postcard reproduced from an 1879 lithograph]]

[[image:Bascomhall.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bascom Hill, historic center of the university, with Bascom Hall at top; on a commemorative postcard reproduced from an 1879 lithograph]]

The '''University of Wisconsin-Madison''' is widely considered to be one of the most [[liberal]] public research universities in the nation.<ref>Bill O'Reilly, for example, stated in an interview with a Wisconsin state representative that "This University of Wisconsin at Madison [is] one of the most liberal colleges in the country's history, not just in the country."  The state representative did not dispute that about his own state's school.[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166979,00.html]</ref>  

The '''University of Wisconsin-Madison''' is widely considered to be one of the most [[liberal]] public research universities in the nation.<ref>Bill O'Reilly, for example, stated in an interview with a Wisconsin state representative that "This University of Wisconsin at Madison [is] one of the most liberal colleges in the country's history, not just in the country."  The state representative did not dispute that about his own state's school.[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166979,00.html]</ref> This is despite a plaque at the university which has reads since 1894: “Whatever may be the limitations that trammel inquiry elsewhere We believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should forever encourage the continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

Lavishly funded, it has an enrollment of over forty thousand students and a budget of over two billion dollars. It is located in the state capital, [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on a sprawling lakeside campus.  It is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by U.S. News & World Report.<ref>Academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by [https://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php U. S. News and World Report]</ref>

Lavishly funded, it has an enrollment of over forty thousand students and a budget of over two billion dollars. It is located in the state capital, [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on a sprawling lakeside campus.  It is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by U.S. News & World Report.<ref>Academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by [https://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php U. S. News and World Report]</ref>