UW-Madison completes transfer agreement with MATC in Milwaukee

Students from Milwaukee Area Technical College will have a simplified path to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the result of a new transfer contract agreement between the two institutions.

UW–Madison Chancellor John Wiley and MATC President Darnell E. Cole formally signed the agreement today (June 21) in a ceremony at MATC.

The ceremony marks the completion of the last of three major transfer contract agreements between UW–Madison and members of the Wisconsin Technical College System. An agreement with Madison Area Technical College was announced in April, and an identical pact with Nicolet Area Technical College was finalized last month.

The goal of the Transfer Contract Initiative is to expand access to UW–Madison for students from all parts of the state and, ultimately, increase the state’s number of four-year degree-holders to fuel economic growth.

“We are very pleased with this new agreement,” Cole says. “Our students will have a guaranteed opportunity to build a solid educational foundation at MATC, with significant footholds into earning bachelor’s degrees from an outstanding university.”

The agreement allows a qualified student to begin his or her postsecondary education as a freshman in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Transfer Program at MATC and two years later, be guaranteed admission as a transfer student at UW–Madison.

The new agreement eliminates uncertainty for MATC students who complete 54 credits in specified areas, earn a 3.0 grade point average and apply as transfer students to UW–Madison.

Initially, an unlimited number of qualifying MATC students will be able to take part in the program every year, as UW–Madison has the capacity to serve some additional transfer students at the upperclassman level.