Wisconsin has 35 private and 17 public 4-year colleges that enroll 35,919 first-year students yearly. The average tuition of public colleges is $17,468 for in-state students and $25,274 for out-of-state and international students.

Private colleges in Wisconsin charge around $30,370 per year in tuition regardless of residency.

In the 2021-2022 academic year, Wisconsin provided $23 million in financial aid to 8,876 students who enrolled in 4-year colleges for the first time as undergraduates. In addition, the colleges themselves awarded $217.3 million in grants and scholarships to 18,302 students.

Wisconsin receives less than 1% of the total pell grant the federal government allocates. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 8,491 4-year college first-year undergraduates were awarded a total amount of $38.4 million in pell grant ($4,363 per student on average), and 16,019 students received a total amount of $81.7 million in the form of student loans from the federal government ($5,626 per student on average).