UW-Stout, Wisconsin's Polytechnic University, was the first university to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, recognition for our long history of performance excellence in higher education.Involvement and innovation typify a way of life for students attending UW-Stout. Since its founding in 1891, students from around the world have been drawn to the campus by an outstanding curriculum, a faculty with a record of service to students, and excellent facilities.