System President Dr. Jeffrey Gold M.D. announces enrollment at the University of Nebraska campuses reaches its highest level since 2021, with almost 50-thousand students enrolled across the NU system this fall semester.
Administrators say the University of Nebraska-Lincoln enrollment went up for the first time since 2017, with gains at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center recorded its 24th straight record-high enrollment, together helping to drive a 0.7 percent system-wide increase.
The NU system says the University of Nebraska at Omaha has growth among graduate students, and Nebraska at Kearney showed strong student retention, with growth among continuing undergraduate students.
Details of the University of Nebraska’s fall 2024 enrollment are based on a student census taken on the sixth day of classes.
System-wide enrollment totals provided by the university system:
- University of Nebraska System total headcount: 49,749 (0.7 percent increase)
- First-time freshmen: 7,728 (1.8 percent decrease)
- Undergraduate students: 36,446 (0.8 percent increase)
- Graduate students: 9,747 (0.3 percent decrease)
- Professional students: 3,556 (0.8 percent increase)
- Resident students: 37,903 (1 percent increase)
- Nonresident students: 11,846 (0.5 percent decrease)
- Full-time student enrollment: 40,150 (1.5 percent increase)
- Student credit hours: 604,488 (0.9 percent increase)
Campus enrollment totals:
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 23,992 (1.7 percent increase)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha: 14,972 (0.3 percent decrease)
- University of Nebraska at Kearney: 5,881 (2.3 percent decrease)
- University of Nebraska Medical Center: 4,703 (3.2 percent increase)
- Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture: 201 (13.4 percent decrease)
(Picture from University of Nebraska System)