It is located near downtown Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, and adjacent to 78-acre (32 ha) Marathon Park.

UW-Wausau also has a collaborative program with UW-Stevens Point and UW–Oshkosh that allows students to be dually enrolled in both colleges, and to take select courses from those colleges on the UW-Marathon County campus, to earn bachelor's degrees in Business Administration, General Studies, Web and Digital Media Development, and Nursing.

The UWSP-Wausau Concert Band is a community-university blend that includes current and former UWMC students and other musicians from the Wausau area.

Every even-numbered year, the band's early spring concert features music related to dance, from ballet to Broadway to ballroom.

The UWMC Jazz Ensemble is open to all university students interested in performing big band music.

This course is an important part of the curriculum for music majors and allows students to apply and reinforce what they are learning in their other coursework.

The Concert Choir performs each year at the UWMC EATS scholarship fundraising event and delivers Singing Valentines throughout the community each February.

This group of 12-16 singers performs a wide variety of jazz and popular music and is open to all college students by audition.

This organization represents the 13 two-year branch campuses of the UW System that formerly were the University of Wisconsin Colleges.