Edgewood University is a private Dominican university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It occupies a campus overlooking Lake Wingra. Edgewood offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and 25 graduate degrees, and has an enrollment of approximately 2,000. Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn bought Edgewood Villa in 1873 and later donated it to the Dominican Sisters for educational use. In 1881, the Sisters opened St.