Rankings and Statistics

 

Rankings

  • Ranked by Military Times as the No. 1 University for Military Friendliness (2015, 2016)
  • Ranked by Military Times as the No. 1 Military Friendly Business School (2015)
  • Recipient of the 2014 Presidential Award for Economic Opportunity
  • Home to the NIH Center for Research in Human Movement Variability

 

Enrollment

  • 10,935 Full Time students
  • 4,692 Part Time

 

Freshman Class | 2016

  • Largest Incoming Class in UNO history two years in a row: 2,069 New First-Year Students
  • 45% First Generation students
  • 128 Military/Veteran including dependents

 

Student Body

  • 15,627 Total Students
  • Nearly 50% of all students of color in the University of Nebraska system attends UNO
  • 86% of current UNO students are from Nebraska
  • 112 countries represented in the International Studies Program

 

Research

  • External Grant Opportunities
  • Number Awarded: 188
  • Amount Awarded: $17,259,135

In the summer of 2016, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved funding to support a new institution at UNO, called the Nebraska Applied Research Institute. 

 

Community Engagement

  • 2014 national award winner of the Presidential Award for the Economic Opportunity category of the Presidential Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
  • The Carnegie Foundation named UNO as one of the nation's leaders in engagement and outreach with the 2015 Community Engagement Classification.
  • 5,929 students participated in courses with community engagement components.

Faculty

  • 2,132 total Faculty and Staff
  • 17:1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio
  • 13:1 graduate student-to-faculty ratio