by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln was awarded 115 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is teacher education subject specific.
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UNL landed the #207 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation.
UNL is also ranked #2 out of 19 schools in Nebraska.
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln has an acceptance rate of 79%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 8% of students accepted to UNL submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 560 and 670. Math scores were between 550 and 670.
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The student to faculty ratio at University of Nebraska - Lincoln is about average at 16 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Nebraska - Lincoln is 84%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln has a freshmen retention rate of 82%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At UNL the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 42%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 20,286 undergraduates at UNL with 18,949 being full-time and 1,337 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,585 | $11,812 | $14,504 | $18,692 | $21,192 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of UNL, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At UNL, approximately 40% of students took out student loans averaging $6,553 a year. That adds up to $26,212 over four years for those students.
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See which majors at University of Nebraska - Lincoln make the most money.
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Contact details for UNL are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1400 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68588-0419 |
| Phone: | 402-472-7211 |
| Website: | www.unl.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 545 | $47,663 |
| General Psychology | 267 | $33,034 |
| Public Relations & Advertising | 251 | $42,168 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 231 | $55,979 |
| Food, Nutrition & Related Services | 185 | $33,728 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 181 | $45,786 |
| Accounting | 171 | $54,785 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 162 | $71,318 |
| Marketing | 152 | $51,354 |
| Family & Consumer Economics | 141 | $35,242 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 14,852 students took at least one online class at University of Nebraska - Lincoln. This is a decrease from the 15,859 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 14,852 | 1,652 |
| 2021-2022 | 15,859 | 1,954 |
| 2020-2021 | 16,732 | 2,016 |
| 2018-2019 | 11,827 | 1,649 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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