University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is Nebraska's flagship public land-grant university, located in Lincoln. Chartered in 1869, it is the oldest campus of the University of Nebraska system. It grew under the Morrill Act into a research university with a City Campus near downtown and an East Campus for agriculture and related fields.

Colleges include Arts and Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Engineering, Business, Education and Human Sciences, Journalism and Mass Communications, Law, Architecture, and Fine and Performing Arts. Nebraska Innovation Campus, the Holland Computing Center, and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources are the sites graduate students in agriculture, engineering, and computational science use most. Research strength is concentrated in agriculture, food science, engineering, and journalism.

About 24,000 students enroll, including roughly 4,500 graduate and professional students. International students account for around 10 percent of enrollment and come from more than 100 countries. Faculty number about 1,700. Alumni include writer Willa Cather, television host Johnny Carson, and investor Warren Buffett, who attended before transferring.

The university awards master's and doctoral degrees and a J.D. Graduate study is departmental, with coursework and a thesis or dissertation on a two-semester calendar plus a summer term. Assistantships in agriculture, engineering, and the sciences are the usual support for research students. Students work on City and East Campuses in Lincoln, a state capital of about 290,000.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Nebraska–Lincoln lists 4 graduate programs across 4 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in agriculture, food & forestry, computer science and mathematics.