Higher learning institutions

  • Alverno College: private liberal arts college for women offering undergraduate degrees; located on southwest side of Milwaukee

  • Bryant & Stratton College: a system of private career colleges; offers associate and bachelor degrees; located in downtown Milwaukee

  • Carroll College: Carroll College; private liberal arts college; undergraduate and graduate degrees; located in Waukesha

  • Concordia University: private liberal arts university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees; one of ten schools in the Concordia University System, which are owned and operated by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; located in Mequon

  • ITT Technical Institute: technical career training including electronics, web technician, computer programming, computer networking, and computer drafting and design; offers graduate degrees; located in Greenfield

  • Keller Graduate School of Management: DeVry University; masters degrees for professionals; located in downtown Milwaukee and Waukesha

  • Lakeland College: private liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees; has Milwaukee center; located in Sheboygan

  • Marian College: Catholic applied liberal arts college; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees; located in Fond du Lac and West Allis

  • Marquette University: independent research university; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, PhD's; Jesuit; located in downtown Milwaukee

  • Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC): public, two-year technical college; largest technical college in Wisconsin; has four Milwaukee-area locations

  • McPherson College Milwaukee Continuing Education Center: requires a bachelor's degree for these courses, designed for educators; a four year liberal arts institution affiliated with the Church of the Brethren in McPherson, Kansas; located in Waukesha

  • Medical College of Wisconsin: private research college; offers MD, PhD, MS, MPH and MA degrees; major national research center; campus is in the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center

  • Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD); private, independent professional art and design college; offers undergraduate degrees; campus located in Milwaukee's Third Ward

  • Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE): private engineering school; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees; campus in downtown Milwaukee near Cathedral Square

  • Mount Mary College: private women's college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees; campus on west side of Milwaukee

  • National-Louis University(NLU): offers undergraduate and graduate programs; worldwide campuses; Milwaukee location on North Old World Third Street

  • Ottawa University: liberal arts university; offers undergraduate degrees; campuses across the US; Brookfield location

  • University of Phoenix: adult education and degree programs; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees; over 100 campuses throughout the world; Brookfield location

  • Sanford-Brown College (SBC): private, career-oriented; offers undergraduate degrees

  • Saint Francis Seminary: prepares men for the priesthood and diaconate and men and women for professional lay ministry in the Church, in the Roman Catholic tradition

  • Cardinal Stritch University: independent university; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, PhD's; campus in Glendale

  • UW Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee; public research university; part of University of Wisconsin System, largest UW outside of Madison; offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, PhD's; campus on Milwaukee's north east side

  • UW Waukesha: University of Wisconsin--Waukesha; part of the University of Wisconsin college system; offers undergraduate degrees

  • Upper Iowa University: private liberal arts college in Iowa; offers undergraduate degrees; campus locations around the USA; campus in West Allis

  • Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC): technical college; campus in Pewaukee

  • Wisconsin Lutheran College: independent college; offers undergraduate degrees

  • Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology; graduate program in clinical psychology; offers Master's and doctoral (Psy.D.) degree in clinical psychology