Momentum at the University of Nebraska 2008
Enrollment
- Highest total enrollment since 1996 – 47,808
- Increases over 2007 on every campus and in every category
- First-time freshmen
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
- Professional students
- Out-of-state students: almost one in five NU students
- International students: 2,700+ from 120 countries
- Minority students: 9.3 percent of all students
- Keeping Nebraska’s best and brightest
- Highest-ever average ACT score for incoming freshmen on every campus
- 47 percent of students who graduated in the top 25 percent of their Nebraska high school graduating class enrolled at the University of Nebraska
- Five students in the 2008 freshmen class had a perfect SAT or ACT score
- Extremely competitive admissions for UNMC Colleges
- Medicine: 1400 applications for 130 seats
- Dentistry: 1000 applications for 45 seats
- NU ranks in top 30 public universities in R&D spending – more than $330 million
- Every $1 million in R&D supports 31 Nebraska jobs
- University research external funding: $178 million (in 2000, research funding was $91 million)
- Record research year at UNL in 2007-08, almost $106 million
- Major grants in past 12 months
- $12 million – neurodegenerative diseases
- $10.6 million – nanomedicine
- $5.3 million – pancreatic cancer
- $9.3 million – enhancing math skills of Nebraska kids
- $8.7 million – regional center to improve child welfare services
- $5.5 million – robotics-based curriculum to improve math, science and engineering skills in Nebraska classrooms
- $2 million – bridge safety
- $3.8 million – increase the number of women in science and engineering professions
- $2.4 million – collaboration science relating to military
- Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management
- Highly competitive program at UNL (formerly JD Edwards Program)
- Average ACT of 2008 freshmen: 32.8
- Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science and Technology
- New charter, new focus on research
- Search underway for new director and chief science officer
- UNL: top 40 public universities in US News rankings
- UNL: "Most popular" public university in U.S. based on yield rate
- UNO: Highly ranked graduate programs in public affairs and criminal justice
- UNO: Top ranked university in U.S. in value-added education from Council for Aid to Education
- UNK: Top tier of Midwestern masters-level universities
- UNMC: Highly ranked programs in rural health, primary care, internal medicine
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