unitid 181464 · Lincoln, NE · public 4-year · city (large)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Public university in Lincoln, Nebraska, US
- founded
- 1869
- enrollment 2023
- 25,724
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- unl.edu/
- motto
- “Literis Dedicata et Omnibus Artibus”
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was the University of Nebraska until 1968, when it absorbed the Municipal University of Omaha to form the University of Nebraska system. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship institution of the state-wide system. wikipedia rev 1359894079 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
87%
60th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
19,178
86th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
23%
undergrads on Pell grants
24th pctl among public 4-years
completion
67%
finish within 150% time
86th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$26,697
73rd pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$17,747
after aid, aided students
82nd pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$56,887
after entry, Title IV students
67th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$21,000
63rd pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $12,751 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k17%
- 30-48k14%
- 48-75k17%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $71,878
- First-generation students
- 22%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $10,434
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 371 | $62,338 | $22,500 |
| Psychology, General. | 249 | $52,377 | $22,750 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 237 | $77,155 | $19,650 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 226 | $58,750 | $23,258 |
| Marketing. | 181 | $64,871 | $23,250 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 168 | $125,688 | — |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods. | 162 | $47,126 | $23,128 |
| Family and Consumer Economics and Related Studies. | 151 | $45,796 | $22,500 |
| Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services. | 146 | $63,837 | $25,256 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | 138 | $74,112 | $21,500 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 137 | $84,216 | $24,000 |
| Biology, General. | 137 | $62,754 | $25,342 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 2,733 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (633) · basketball player (562) · American football player (230) · university teacher (207) · politician (168) · lawyer (72) · mathematician (70) · writer (70)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- George Wells Beadle Medicine 1958
- Donald J. Cram Chemistry 1987
- Alan J. Heeger Chemistry 2000
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Warren Buffett
140 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Willa Cather
64 wikis · Public domain
George Wells Beadle
60 wikis · Public domain
John J. Pershing
59 wikis · Public domain
Alan J. Heeger
58 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Larry the Cable Guy
58 wikis · Public domain
Johnny Carson
56 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gabrielle Union
46 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Merlene Ottey
37 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jaime King
37 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Barbara Hendricks
32 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Deb Fischer
30 wikis · Public domain
Also recorded: Donald J. Cram, Richard Hamming, Jay Wright Forrester.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359894079), CC BY-SA 4.0.