Graduate Programs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Graduate School Overview

University of Nebraska-Lincoln (referred to as Nebraska-Lincoln) is a Public, 4 years school located in Lincoln, NE.

The school is accredited by Higher Learning Commission (1/1/1913 - Current[Estimated Date]).

Nebraska-Lincoln Directory Information
School Name	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Address	1400 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68588-0419
Phone	402-472-7211
Web	https://www.unl.edu
Online Application	https://admissions.unl.edu/apply
Financial Info	https://financialaid.unl.edu

The 2023 graduate school tuition & fees of Nebraska-Lincoln is $8,168 for Nebraska residents and $20,318 for out-of-state students. The school has 4,616 graduate students where it has a total enrollment of 23,805 including undergraduate students.

It offers total 292 graduate programs through Post-Bachelor Certificate, Master's, Post-Master Certificate, Doctorate (Research), and Doctorate (Professional Practice). Among them, 19 programs are available online classes.

Graduate School 2023 Key Facts
School Type	Public, 4 years
Tuition & Fees	$20,318 $8,168 for Nebraska Residents
Student Population	4,616
Offered Degrees/Programs	Post-Bachelor Certificate, Master's, Post-Master Certificate, Doctorate (Research), and Doctorate (Professional Practice)
Number of Programs	292 graduate programs (19 programs available online learning)
Student to Faculty Ratio	16 to 1

The graduate tuition & fees at Nebraska-Lincoln is $8,168 for Nebraska residents and $20,318 for out-of-state students for the academic year 2022-2023. The tuition per credit hour is $341 for Nebraska residents and $996 for out-of-state students.

Nebraska-Lincoln offers the alternative tuition plans.

2023 Graduate Program Tuition & Fees
Tuition & Fees
Nebraska Residents	$8,168
Out-of-State	$20,318
Tuition per Credit Hour
Nebraska Residents	$341
Out-of-State	$996

Nebraska-Lincoln offers the distance education programs. All course works for completing a degree program can be done through online exclusively for graduate programs. In addition, the distance learning courses are offered for students who are not enrolled online exclusively.

On its campus, academic/career services, employment services for students, placement services for completers, on-campus daycare for students' children are provided for their students.

Special Learning Opportunities & On-campus Services
Distance Learning (Online Classes)	19 Online Programs Available
Special learning Opportunities	ROTC (Army, Navy, Air Force) Study abroad Teacher certification
On-Campus Student Services	Academic/career services Employment services for students Placement services for completers On-campus daycare for students' children

2023 Graduate Tuition, Fees, Other Expenses

For the academic year 2022-2023, the graduate school tuition & fees of University of Nebraska-Lincoln is $8,168 for Nebraska residents and $20,318 for other students. The graduate tuition & fees are increased by 3.82% compared to previous academic year.

Data source: 2022-2023 tuition - NCES(National Center for Education Statistics (Last update: July 22, 2022)

2022-2023 Graduate Tuition & fees
	Nebraska Residents		Out-of-State
	Tuition	Fees	Tuition	Fees
2018-2019	$5,818	$1,770	$16,654	$1,770
2019-2020	$5,976	$1,599	$17,280	$1,599
2020-2021	$6,138	$1,585	$17,928	$1,585
2021-2022	$6,138	$1,613	$17,928	$1,613
2022-2023	$6,138	$1,643	$17,928	$1,643
2023-2024	$6,318	$1,850	$18,468	$1,850

The graduate school tuition & fees of Nebraska-Lincoln is expensive compared to public graduate schools in Nebraska. The average graduate school tuition for all graduate schools in United States is $19,793 and the Nebraska graduate tuition is $14,788 (public) / $14,011 (private).

The following table compares the average graduate school tuition by location and school types.

Graduate Tuition & fees Comparison
	Residents	Out-of-State
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	$8,168	$20,318
All Graduate Schools	$16,068	$19,793
Public	$11,516	$20,721
Private	$19,916
Nebraska Graduate Schools	$11,171	$14,302
Public	$8,551	$14,788
Private	$14,011

For academic year 2022-2023, the living costs are $17,298 when a student lives on-campus housing facilities (i.e. dormitory, school owned apartments, etc.) at Nebraska-Lincoln.

On-campus living costs are increased by 8.04% compared to previous academic year. The off-campus living costs are $17,298. Off-campus living costs are increased by 8.04% compared to previous academic year.

2022-2023 Living Expenses
	Living On-Campus		Living Off-Campus
	Room & Board	Other Expense	Room & Board	Other Expense
2018-2019	$11,430	$3,248	$11,430	$3,246
2019-2020	$11,830	$3,320	$11,830	$3,320
2020-2021	$12,186	$3,374	$12,186	$3,374
2021-2022	$11,920	$3,424	$11,920	$3,424
2022-2023	$12,430	$3,580	$12,430	$3,580
2023-2024	$13,856	$3,442	$13,856	$3,442

For academic year 2022-2023, the tuition per credit hour for graduate programs is $358 for Nebraska residents and $1,034 for other students at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The graduate tuition per credit hour are increased by 3.82% compared to previous academic year.

2022-2023 Graduation Program Tuition per Credit Hour
	Nebraska Residents	Out-of-State
2018-2019	$323	$925
2019-2020	$332	$960
2020-2021	$341	$996
2021-2022	$341	$996
2022-2023	$341	$996
2023-2024	$358	$1,034

The law school tuition at University of Nebraska-Lincoln is $15,612 for Nebraska residents and $36,252 for out-of-state students for academic year 2022-2023.

The following table shows the tuition & fees for law school at Nebraska-Lincoln.

Law School Tuition

2022-2023 Law School/Medical School Tuition at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	Nebraska Residents		Out-of-State
	Tuition	Fees	Tuition	Fees
Law	$12,180	$3,432	$32,820	$3,432

Graduate Programs at Nebraska-Lincoln

University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers 166 graduate programs for Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate. The next table lists number of programs by offered degree and online availability along with number of completers by degree/certificate programs. Last year, 1,614 students have completed their study at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Offered Degrees at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Award Level	Total Number of Programs	Available Online Class	Number of Completers
Master's Degree	69	4	1,032
Doctor's degree - research/scholarship	46	0	309
Doctor's degree - other	3	0	147
Post Bachelor's Degree	44	14	122
Post Master's Degree	4	1	4
Total	166	19	1,614

The next table shows the popular graduate programs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln by award level.

The most popular Post-graduate Certificate program is the Business Administration and Management program with 31 completers.
The most popular Master's program is the Business Administration and Management program with 182 completers.
The most popular Doctorate program is the Law program with 137 completers.

Popular Post-graduate Certificate Programs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Business Administration and Management	✔	31	-
Public Relations/Image Management	✔	12	-
Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	✔	12	-
Mathematics Teacher Education	✔	9	-
Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management	✔	8	-

Popular Master's Programs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Business Administration and Management	✔	182	$85,300
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	56	$40,800
Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist	✕	45	-
Curriculum and Instruction	✕	42	$43,800
Accounting	✕	39	$57,400

Popular Doctorate Programs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Law	✕	137	-
Educational Administration and Supervision (other)	✕	23	-
Chemistry	✕	18	-
Engineering	✕	17	-
Education (other)	✕	16	-

University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers 166 programs through Master's, Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate. The programs are offered both in online and on-site education. Last year total 1,614 students have completed their graduate studies.

1,032 students have earned/completed Master's program.
147 students have earned/completed Doctorate (Practice) program.
122 students have earned/completed Post-Bachelor's program.
4 students have earned/completed Post-Master's program.

Master's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Agriculture [+]	✕	60 completers	-
Agricultural Economics	✕	5	-
Animal Sciences	✕	14	-
Animal Health	✕	2	-
Food Science	✕	15	-
Agronomy and Crop Science	✕	21	-
Horticultural Science	✕	3	-
Natural Resources and Conservation [+]	✕	17 completers	-
Natural Resources/Conservation	✕	17	-
Architecture [+]	✕	35 completers	-
Architecture	✕	5	-
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning	✕	6	-
Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology	✕	24	-
Communication and Journalism [+]	✕	28 completers	-
Speech Communication and Rhetoric	✕	-	-
Journalism	✕	28	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	25 completers	-
Computer and Information Sciences	✕	25	-
Education [+]	✕	171 completers	-
Curriculum and Instruction	✕	42	$43,800
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	56	$40,800
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research (other)	✕	24	-
Special Education and Teaching (other)	✕	19	-
Agricultural Teacher Education	✕	5	$49,000
Mathematics Teacher Education	✕	25	-
Engineering [+]	✔ (1 completers)	136 completers	-
Engineering	✔	37	-
Agricultural Engineering	✕	5	-
Architectural Engineering	✕	27	-
Chemical Engineering	✕	1	-
Civil Engineering	✕	26	-
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	✕	7	-
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering	✕	5	-
Mechanical Engineering	✕	23	-
Construction Engineering	✕	5	-
Engineering Technology [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Telecommunications Technology/Technician	✕	1	-
Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields (other)	✕	2	-
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics [+]	✕	8 completers	-
Foreign Languages and Literatures	✕	8	-
Work and Family Studies [+]	✕	62 completers	-
Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies	✕	22	-
Human Development and Family Studies	✕	36	$39,200
Apparel and Textiles	✕	4	-
Legal Studies [+]	✕	8 completers	-
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence	✕	-	-
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (other)	✕	5	-
Legal Professions and Studies (other)	✕	3	-
English Language and Literature [+]	✕	10 completers	-
English Language and Literature	✕	10	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✔ (1 completers)	22 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	1	-
Biochemistry	✕	2	-
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	✕	1	-
Entomology	✔	18	-
Mathematics and Statistics [+]	✕	24 completers	-
Mathematics	✕	13	-
Statistics	✕	11	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✕	1 completers	-
Nutrition Sciences	✕	1	-
Philosophy and Religious Studies [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Philosophy	✕	3	-
Physical Sciences [+]	✕	33 completers	-
Chemistry	✕	6	-
Geology/Earth Science	✕	11	-
Physics	✕	16	-
Psychology [+]	✕	20 completers	-
Psychology	✕	20	-
Social Sciences [+]	✕	20 completers	-
Anthropology	✕	11	-
Economics	✕	-	-
Geography	✕	5	-
Political Science and Government	✕	-	-
Sociology	✕	4	-
Visual and Performing Arts [+]	✕	28 completers	-
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts	✕	3	-
Fine/Studio Arts	✕	9	-
Art History, Criticism and Conservation	✕	-	-
Music	✕	16	$26,600
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	45 completers	-
Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist	✕	45	-
Business [+]	✔ (2 completers)	242 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✔	182	$85,300
Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management	✕	-	-
Accounting	✕	39	$57,400
Finance	✔	4	-
Actuarial Science	✕	5	-
Marketing Research	✕	-	-
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services (other)	✕	12	-
History [+]	✕	5 completers	-
History	✕	5	-
	Total	1,032

Doctorate (Research) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Agriculture [+]	✕	36 completers	-
Agricultural Economics	✕	5	-
Animal Sciences	✕	6	-
Food Science	✕	6	-
Agronomy and Crop Science	✕	13	-
Plant Sciences (other)	✕	6	-
Natural Resources and Conservation [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Natural Resources/Conservation	✕	7	-
Communication and Journalism [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Speech Communication and Rhetoric	✕	3	-
Communications Technologies [+]	✕	-	-
Communications Technology/Technician	✕	-	-
Computer and Information Sciences [+]	✕	12 completers	-
Computer and Information Sciences	✕	12	-
Education [+]	✕	42 completers	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	3	$77,800
Educational Administration and Supervision (other)	✕	23	-
Education (other)	✕	16	-
Engineering [+]	✕	68 completers	-
Engineering	✕	17	-
Architectural Engineering	✕	4	-
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering	✕	2	-
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	✕	7	-
Civil Engineering	✕	13	-
Electrical and Electronics Engineering	✕	8	-
Mechanical Engineering	✕	8	-
Biological/Biosystems Engineering	✕	9	-
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Foreign Languages and Literatures	✕	3	-
English Language and Literature [+]	✕	8 completers	-
English Language and Literature	✕	8	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences [+]	✕	24 completers	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	✕	9	-
Biomedical Sciences	✕	4	-
Biochemistry	✕	6	-
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology	✕	1	-
Entomology	✕	4	-
Mathematics and Statistics [+]	✕	15 completers	-
Mathematics	✕	10	-
Statistics	✕	5	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Nutrition Sciences	✕	2	-
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (other)	✕	2	-
Philosophy and Religious Studies [+]	✕	-	-
Philosophy	✕	-	-
Physical Sciences [+]	✕	25 completers	-
Chemistry	✕	18	-
Geology/Earth Science	✕	-	-
Physics	✕	7	-
Psychology [+]	✕	20 completers	$48,200
Psychology	✕	10	$48,200
Educational Psychology	✕	10	-
Social Sciences [+]	✕	15 completers	-
Economics	✕	-	-
Econometrics and Quantitative Economics	✕	3	-
Geography	✕	4	-
Political Science and Government	✕	4	-
Sociology	✕	4	-
Visual and Performing Arts [+]	✕	16 completers	-
Music	✕	16	-
Business [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Marketing Research	✕	-	-
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services (other)	✕	7	-
History [+]	✕	4 completers	-
History	✕	4	-
	Total	309

Doctorate (Practice) Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Legal Studies [+]	✕	138 completers	-
Law	✕	137	-
International Law and Legal Studies	✕	1	-
Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences [+]	✕	9 completers	-
Audiology/Audiologist	✕	9	-
	Total	147

Post-Bachelor's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Architecture [+]	✕	-	-
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning	✕	-	-
Communication and Journalism [+]	✕	3 completers	-
Journalism	✕	3	-
Education [+]	✕	10 completers	-
Curriculum and Instruction	✕	1	-
Mathematics Teacher Education	✕	9	-
Education (other)	✕	-	-
Engineering [+]	✔ (2 completers)	5 completers	-
Engineering	✔	2	-
Construction Engineering	✔	3	-
Work and Family Studies [+]	✔ (1 completers)	1 completers	-
Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies	✕	-	-
Apparel and Textiles	✔	1	-
Psychology [+]	✕	7 completers	-
Educational Psychology	✕	7	-
Business [+]	✔	41 completers	-
Business Administration and Management	✔	31	-
Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management	✔	8	-
Marketing Research	✔	2	-
	Total	122

Post-Master's Programs and Number of Completers
Program	Available Online	Number of Completers	Average Earning after graduation
Education [+]	✕	4 completers	-
Curriculum and Instruction	✕	-	-
Educational Leadership and Administration	✕	-	-
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research (other)	✕	4	-
Legal Studies [+]	✔	-	-
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (other)	✔	-	-
	Total	4

Graduate Student Population at Nebraska-Lincoln

For the academic year 2022-2023, total 4,616 students enrolled into University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate schools where it has total 23,805 students including undergraduate students. By attending status, there are 2,520 full-time and 2,096 part-time graduate students. By gender, 2,253 male and 2,363 female students are attending graduate schools. The next table summarizes the graduate student population by gender and attending status.

Graduate School Student Population By Gender
	Total	Male	Female
Total	4,616	2,253	2,363
Full-time	2,520	1,294	1,226
Part-tme	2,096	959	1,137

The next table summarizes the students population by race/ethnicity.

There are 2,848 White (61.70%), 121 Black/African American (2.62%), 257 Hispanic (5.57%), 123 Asian (2.66%), and 1,267 students with other races. 974 students are enrolled with non-resident alien status.

Graduate Student Population By Race/ethnicity
	Total	Male	Female
Total	4,616	2,253	2,363
American Indian/Native American	15	5	10
Asian	123	61	62
Black/African American	121	62	59
Hispanic	257	129	128
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	1	1	0
White	2,848	1,287	1,561
Two More	124	62	62
Un-Known	153	64	89
Non-resident Alien	974	582	392

University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers the distance learning opportunities (online degree program and/or courses) for graduate programs. 1,374 graduate students (29.77% of total students) are enrolled online exclusively and 464 graduate students (10.05% of total students) are enrolled some online courses. The next table summarizes the online student population.

Distance Learning Student Population
	Number of Graduate Students
Total	4,616
Enrolled Online Exclusively	1,374
Enrolled Some Online Courses	464
Not in Online Courses	2,778

The following table summarizes the graduate students population by age at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 1,279 students are aged 20 to 24 (27.71% of total students), 181 students are aged above 50 (3.92%). Next table summarizes the student population by age at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Graduate Student Population By Age
	Total	Male	Female
Total	4,616	2,253	2,363
Age 20-21	55	24	31
Age 22-24	1,224	548	676
Age 25-29	1,482	730	752
Age 30-34	773	424	349
Age 35-39	446	241	205
Age 40-49	455	213	242
Age 50-64	156	59	97
Over 64	25	14	11

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