Our Polytechnic Advantage

Ready.

That’s how you’ll be described as a graduate. Ready to achieve. Ready to succeed.

As Wisconsin’s Polytechnic, we are uniquely positioned to make you career-ready through our polytechnic tenets:

Applied Learning

Learn by doing as early as your freshman year in our interactive learning environments. We have 3 times as many labs as classrooms on campus! Get your hands-on experiential learning opportunities like undergraduate research and paid co-ops where you can earn while you learn.

Career Focus

Choose from distinctive majors within six career clusters to explore what you're passionate about. Network at our career fairs—some of the largest in the Midwest—or with the 1,500 employers nationwide who actively recruit Stout students. 97.8% of our grads are employed within six months of graduation.

Collaboration

Connect with the leaders in your field who are making a difference within and outside the classroom. UW-Stout is a recognized leader in creating partnerships with businesses and non-profit organizations who infuse their expertise into each of our programs. As a student here, you'll collaborate with these partners and our award-winning faculty to solve real-world problems.

What is a Polytechnic?

Polytechnic institutions are career-focused undergraduate and graduate universities that combine applied learning with a liberal arts education.

History and Significance

UW-Stout was given our designation as “Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University” in 2007 by the UW Board of Regents. This designation is only applicable to about 3% of universities in the U.S. and includes other highly respected polytechnic peers such as Cal Poly, Michigan Tech, and MIT.

UW-Stout featured at 2018 Polytechnic Summit

The Polytechnic Summit 2018 (PS2018) was held from June 4 to 6 at the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru. This event gathered around 150 participants among academics and professionals, from the world of education and representatives of the industry, interested in transforming higher education so that it is more in tune with the requirements and challenges of a labor market marked by exponential technologies in the age of knowledge.

The Polytechnic Summit presented the innovative approaches used by avant-garde universities and technical and polytechnic institutes around the world to provide active learning environments, promote student-centered teaching and educational innovation. Also, this year, the event focused on four thematic areas: (1) Implications and challenges of higher education in the digital era; (2) Collaboration between industry and academia; (3) Applied research and; (4) Design, innovation and trans-disciplinarity.

Patrick Guilfoile, provost of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, together with Glendalí Rodríguez, associate provost of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, closed the event by showing their institution's approach to providing an education of the 21st century and received the post of part of UTEC, since they will host the next edition of the event, to be held from June 3 to 5, 2019.