The following are quick statistics based on a survey we did of current and past office bearers of the Pakistani Students Association at UW–Madison. These figures are not official statistics from the UW, so they may be considered as guesstimates only. However, upon cross-checking with multiple resources, the figures seem to make sense. The figures below include both undergraduate and graduate incoming students for each year.
A new kind of incoming population recently has been “observer-ships.” These are mostly medical students doing a short, two-week unpaid residency under the umbrella of a “shadow program.” But it also includes three individuals sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Commission joining in from Faisalabad Nuclear Institute for Agriculture & Biology, and also one student sponsored by the Higher Education Commission under the head of the International Research Support Initiative Program. Several other postdocs/research fellows have also been mostly sponsored by the Higher Education Commission.
