University of Nebraska at Omaha

The University of Nebraska Omaha has been involved in strategic planning since its doors opened in 1908. Faculty, staff, students and members of the community have created a dynamic process that encourages good ideas, allows employees to shape direction, and is transforming our institution.

As both a Metropolitan University of distinction and a Carnegie Doctoral Research Institution, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) transforms and improves the quality of life locally, nationally and globally.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is recognized as the premier Metropolitan University throughout the United States and the world.

The “Metropolitan University,” defined in its simplest terms, is an institution that accepts all of higher education’s traditional values in teaching, research, and service, but takes upon itself the additional responsibility of providing engaged leadership within the metropolitan region by using its human and financial resources as partners to improve the region’s quality of life.

The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) is committed to assisting all members of the university community in providing for their own safety and security. The safety of our students, faculty, and staff is our number one priority.

All members of the UNO community are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of our students while treating them with honesty and respect.The UNO Division of Student Affairs works closely with campus and community partners to provide a number of resources to assist students and their families.

Whether you're earning your degree fully online, or enhancing your traditional college experience, UNO offers support for all students taking advantage of Online Learning.

The Office of Research and Creative Activity (ORCA) supports faculty, staff, and students in their ongoing scholarly activities at UNO. We provide leadership in the development of future research programs, creative collaborations, efforts in community engagement, and securing grants and partnerships that will advance knowledge, help realize economic and human potential, and serve the interests of society.

Join a community that believes in academic excellence through a curriculum that is relevant to the real world. UNO appreciates that learning is a lifelong process and not every route to college is traditional. We offer several options and an education that will serve you for a lifetime.

For more than 100 years, the University of Nebraska Omaha has helped professionals advance their careers through a wide array of award-winning graduate programs. We focus our attention, expertise and resources on our most important responsibility—our students.

All members of the UNO community are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of our students while treating them with honesty and respect. Our Division of Student Affairs works closely with campus and community partners to provide a number of resources to assist students and their families.

Dream big as you experience the city of Omaha and find your own community within it. When you become a part of the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), you make the deliberate choice to be a Maverick and to embrace all the possibilities the name implies. We invite you, and all future Mavericks, to get to know the O.

Omaha is our campus and classroom. No fences or barriers separate students from the opportunities offered by the greater Omaha area and beyond. We address real issues, providing relevant learning opportunities which uniquely prepare our graduates as professionals and active members of their community.

Since its inception in 1908, the University of Nebraska Omaha has been firmly anchored in the community, forging partnerships with business, education, government, arts and civic organizations. UNO has long set the pace for accessible higher education in Nebraska and continues to offer an academically rigorous experience to a diverse student body.

The history of the University of Nebraska Omaha has been a powerful guiding force. Our past fuels our pride and shapes the comprehensive metropolitan university we've become. We were built on a commitment to provide a rigorous, relevant and affordable education that meets the diverse needs of traditional and nontraditional students. UNO has been and always will be driven by the extraordinary connection to and partnership with the city of Omaha.

Since its inception in 1908, the University of Nebraska Omaha has been firmly anchored in the community, forging partnerships with business, education, government, arts and civic organizations. UNO has long set the pace for accessible higher education in Nebraska and continues to offer an academically rigorous experience to a diverse student body.

Throughout its development, UNO has been firmly anchored to the community—building strong ties with business, education, government, arts and civic organizations. These relationships run deep. In fact, for seven consecutive years since the inception of a national award, UNO has remained on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its civic engagement. Construction began in 2012 on UNO's new 60,000-square-foot Community Engagement Center, which will support and allow for further expansion of university-community partnerships.

It is in part thanks to this rich, layered history that Mavericks today know they are a part of a university committed to diversity and inclusion. And the opportunity to create the next chapter continues as the University of Nebraska Omaha addresses the changing needs of the metropolitan area, state, region and world.