Colleges in Nebraska

Nebraska has 34 degree-granting colleges and universities in the federal directory: 16 public, 15 private nonprofit and 3 for-profit. Together they enroll about 89,000 undergraduates. Largest by enrollment: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, with 19,178. They're listed A to Z: the Almanac doesn't rank colleges.

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CollegeNet price Admit rate Graduation Undergrads
Bellevue UniversityBellevue · Private nonprofit
$11,743Not reported29%10,220
Bryan College of Health SciencesLincoln · Private nonprofit
$29,62667%62%553
Central Community CollegeGrand Island · Public
$6,870Not reportedNot reported3,353
Chadron State CollegeChadron · Public
$12,662Not reported48%1,540
Not reportedNot reportedNot reported29
Clarkson CollegeOmaha · Private nonprofit
$25,30178%63%622
College of Saint MaryOmaha · Private nonprofit
$14,62145%60%445
Concordia University, NebraskaSeward · Private nonprofit
$24,52186%60%1,283
Creighton UniversityOmaha · Private nonprofit
$32,45680%83%4,348
Doane UniversityCrete · Private nonprofit
$28,88598%59%978
Hastings CollegeHastings · Private nonprofit
$22,32072%54%891
Little Priest Tribal CollegeWinnebago · Public
$7,457Not reportedNot reported182
$3,811Not reportedNot reported8,775
Mid-Plains Community CollegeNorth Platte · Public
$7,377Not reportedNot reported937
Midland UniversityFremont · Private nonprofit
$24,32066%44%1,159
Myotherapy InstituteLincoln · Private for-profit
Not reportedNot reportedNot reported12
$13,50187%Not reported196
$21,439Not reported11%327
$17,57773%76%781
Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityLincoln · Private nonprofit
$20,64780%61%1,453
$6,395Not reportedNot reported2,387
Peru State CollegePeru · Public
$10,005Not reported37%1,092
Ricketts Great Books CollegeOmaha · Private for-profit
Not reported12%Not reported0
$4,223Not reportedNot reported6,773
Summit Christian CollegeGering · Private nonprofit
$13,11242%60%21
Union Adventist UniversityLincoln · Private nonprofit
$22,158100%55%471
Universal College of Healing ArtsOmaha · Private for-profit
$17,199Not reportedNot reported26
$17,89189%62%4,088
$12,89887%51%11,488
Not reportedNot reportedNot reported938
$16,21487%69%19,178
Wayne State CollegeWayne · Public
$15,534Not reported56%3,010
$5,979Not reportedNot reported893
York UniversityYork · Private nonprofit
$24,37352%45%428

Source: College Scorecard ↗, released October 15, 2026, and IPEDS ↗. Net price is the average for first-year students who received aid, in the latest year each college reported; admit rate is for students entering in fall 2024; graduation is for 2019 entrants; undergraduates are for fall 2024. A dash means the college didn't report the figure.