Major, Options, Degrees and Certificates Report
The Majors, Options, Degrees, and Certificates workbook displays the current term’s active majors, options, degrees, and certificates. Users can search for majors or certificates in the workbook using available filters and export a list to Excel using the Data Exporter tab.
This visualization was created by the Office of the Registrar. View an accessible version of this report. If you have questions, feedback or require additional assistance, contact data@registrar.wisc.edu.
FAQs
Tableau navigation tips are available by clicking the “?” icon in the upper right corner of each report.
To see degree information on the Majors, Options and Degree tab hover over the blue “Details” text. Degree information is also populated in the export from the Data Exporter tab.
Yes, you can download majors, degree and/or certificate data to Excel using the Data Exporter tab. There are a variety of filters you can use to limit the data export as well.
Major’s Options and Degree tab and Certificate tab are set to the current term, based on today’s date. In the Data Exporter tab, you can select the current term or one future term.
The majority of the data shown is pulled from Info Access views UW_ACADEMIC_PLAN and UW_ACADEMIC_SUBPLAN. Some degree information is populated from the SIS table PS_DEGREE_TBL. More information about the logic of this workbook is available by selecting the “i” button on the dashboards.
The data is updated nightly.
Plans are academic offerings such as majors and certificates. Subplans are curricular options within plans. For more information about UW–Madison’s academic structure, refer to DAPIR’s Academic Structure page.
Named options serve as a convenient way to distinguish a distinct curriculum or delivery format within a major. A named option is NOT a new degree or major. For more information, refer to Policy UW-1004: Named Options for Academic Degree/Major Programs.