University of Nebraska Kearney

UNK At-A-Glance

Students 

• 5,104 undergraduate students and 1,439 graduate students.
• Students come to UNK from all 93 Nebraska counties, 47 states, and 49 foreign countries.

Faculty 

• 304 full-time and 96 part-time faculty.
• 99% of full-time faculty teach undergraduate courses, generating 88% of the credit hours at UNK.
• More than 90% of full-time faculty have the highest degrees in their fields.
• Student/faculty ratio: 16 to 1.

Academics 

• UNK offers 170 undergraduate majors, 25 pre-professional programs, and 34 graduate programs.
• Each year, the UNK Honors Program accepts more than 100 freshmen based on ACT scores, letters of reference, class rank, and essays. At present, there are 325 students in the Honors Program.
• UNK’s undergraduate research program is a national model. More UNK students have participated in the annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) than any other college or university in Nebraska for the past five years. More students from UNK attend the NCUR every year than from almost any other university in the nation.
• UNK is the only campus in Nebraska to participate in the National Student Exchange (NSE) that allows students to attend one of 175 other universities or colleges across the continent for a semester or a year, often at UNK tuition rates.

Careers 

• Many UNK programs have a job placement rate that's almost 100%, including Graphic Arts, Industrial Technology, Speech and Hearing Disorders, Accounting, Education, and Computer Science and Information Technology.
• 25%-30% of all teachers, school administrators, speech pathologists, school counselors, and school psychologists in Nebraska are UNK graduates.
• Graduates of UNK’s College of Education account for 33% of all Nebraska high school principals and 35% of all public school superintendents appointed in Nebraska every year.
• Many UNK graduates become administrative leaders in both the public and private sectors of the state and the nation. Others go on to successfully apply to medical, law, and other professional and graduate schools across the country.

Athletics 

• Member of NCAA Division II—Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).
• Programs include baseball, softball, football, volleyball, wrestling, women’s swimming, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s and women’s track and field.
• Colors: Blue & Gold.
• Nickname: Lopers (for the Pronghorn Antelope)
• UNK has won the RMAC All-Sports Trophy every single year that it has been a member of the RMAC.
• UNK athletes are students first. The average cumulative GPA for all 16 Loper teams is consistently above 3.0, and the UNK women’s basketball team recently posted an average cumulative GPA of 3.723—the highest of all other NCAA, NAIA, and junior college programs in the nation.
• UNK athletic events have repeatedly set new national attendance records.

Value 

• Among the most affordable universities in the region, UNK is an excellent investment in your future. Annual costs range from approximately $11,000 for Nebraska students to approximately $15,500 for out-of-state students.
• More than two-thirds of all UNK students receive some form of financial aid.

Student Life 

• More than 160 student organizations, including four sororities and six fraternities.
  • Sororities
    • Alpha Omicron Pi
    • Alpha Phi
    • Gamma Phi Beta
    • Lambda Theta Nu
    • Sigma Lambda Gamma
  • Fraternities
    • Alpha Tau Omega
    • Delta Tau Delta
    • Phi Gamma Delta
    • Pi Kappa Alpha
    • Sigma Lambda Beta
    • Sigma Phi Epsilon
    • Sigma Tau Gamma

Campus 

• A beautiful, technology-rich, 235-acre residential campus with more than 37 buildings, located in Kearney, Nebraska. The campus offers students easy access to the city's vibrant cultural life, outdoor recreational facilities, shopping centers, award-winning restaurants, and affordable housing, as well as to all the hockey, indoor football, entertainment and community events hosted at the local arena.
• In the last decade, UNK has invested more than $60 million renovating or expanding every academic building and residence hall, the Nebraskan Student Union, Foster Field, and most recently the Antelope/Nester complex of residence halls, providing suite-style living and many new amenities for students. In addition, a major renovation and addition to Bruner Hall of Science, including an all-new Planetarium, will be complete for Fall 2009.
• 98% of UNK classrooms are “smart classrooms” that include advanced multimedia learning tools.
• The Calvin T. Ryan library offers extensive online resources, including a collection of more than 9,000 journals.
• The Speech, Language and Hearing Laboratory on campus, a state-of-the-art clinical and teaching facility, serves more than 1,000 Nebraskans with speech and hearing disabilities every year.
• The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) is home to the official visual art collection of the State of Nebraska.
• The UNK campus is also a Nebraska Statewide Arboretum site.

Housing 

• Eight traditional-style residence halls, two suite-style residence halls, two Greek chapter house complexes, one university apartment complex.
• All residential units are within easy walking distance of the academic buildings, the library, the student union, and the Health and Sports Center.

History 

• Founded in 1905 as Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney.
• Became Nebraska State Teachers College in 1921.
• Renamed Kearney State College in 1963.
• Joined the University system as the University of Nebraska at Kearney, in 1991.