University of Nebrska Medical Center

The University of Nebraska Medical Center is the academic health-sciences campus of the University of Nebraska, located in Omaha. It began as Omaha Medical College in 1881 and later became the state's medical center. It is a specialist health institute rather than a comprehensive university.

Colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, public health, and allied health professions sit alongside a graduate studies unit. Clinical and research training is linked to Nebraska Medicine, including the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Research emphasis includes infectious disease, cancer, and rural health.

About 4,000 students enroll, nearly all in professional or graduate programs, drawn mainly from the United States with a smaller international group. Faculty are largely clinician-scientists. Alumni serve as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and public-health officers across the Plains.

Degrees include the M.D., Ph.D., dual M.D./Ph.D., Pharm.D., D.N.P., M.P.H., and allied-health doctorates, mixing coursework, rotations, and laboratory supervision. The calendar follows the U.S. professional-school year. Students train on the Omaha medical-center campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Nebrska Medical Center lists 1 master's program, in biology.