For 144
Years, a Leader in Higher
Education
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, chartered in 1869, is an
educational institution of international stature. UNL is listed by the Carnegie
Foundation within the "Research Universities (very high research
activity)" category. UNL is a land-grant university and a member of the
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). The university is
accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association
of Colleges and Schools. UNL celebrated the 144th anniversary of its founding on Feb. 15,
2013.
A
Strong Foundation
Always a place of high
ambition, this was one of the first institutions west of the Mississippi River
to award doctoral degrees — the first was granted, in physics, in 1896. The
University of Nebraska established the world's first undergraduate psychology
laboratory. The discipline of ecology was born here, and the campuses reflect
that tradition, being recognized as botanical gardens and arboreta. An early
institutional interest in literature and the arts provided the foundations for
today's Prairie Schooner literary magazine, for the University of Nebraska
Press, and for the Sheldon Museum of Art, which houses one of the world's most
significant collections of 20th century American art.
Today, the University
of Nebraska–Lincoln is one of the nation's leading teaching institutions, and a
research leader with a wide array of grant-funded projects aimed at broadening
knowledge in the sciences and humanities.