Nebraska Wesleyan has launched "Bold Designs," a $62 million campaign to raise funds for premier learning spaces, scholarships, recruitment of faculty, and life-changing student experiences.

NWU Launches $62 Million "Bold Designs" Campaign

NWU is ranked among the top 10 percent of colleges and universities named to U.S. News & World Report's list of regional universities - midwest category. The annual college rankings were released September 12.

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NWU a Top Regional University

For the first time, NWU professors John Spilker and Sue Wortmann led students to Cuba as part of a class that explored Cuban youth culture.

Class Gives Students Historic Opportunity to Experience Cuba

Chance Kennicutt, a junior from Sutherland, Neb., is NWU's 44th Gilman Scholarship winner. He will spend the 2017-2018 academic year in Poland.

Gilman Scholarship Sends Political Science Major to Poland

NWU junior Natalia Spengler studied abroad at the London Academy of Music and Art where she studied Shakespeare and refined her acting style. She will perform in the fall production of "Comedy of Errors."

Actress Ready to Perform Shakespeare Following London Study Abroad Experience

Lisa Borchardt, professor of social work, answers student questions. In 2019, NWU will offer a Master's of Social Work (MSW) degree — the first to be offered by a private college in Nebraska and the only program of its kind in the Lincoln area.

NWU Expands Graduate Program Offerings With MSW Degree

First-year students Nathan and Thomas Krick are representing NWU at NGAL 3 where they will pitch their idea for an outdoor television show, Identical Draw.

NWU Students Hope NGAL Experience Turns Business Ideas Into Reality

Music and gender studies professor John Spilker is the 2016-2017 Prouty Teaching Award winner.

Music and Gender Studies Professor Receives Prouty Teaching Award

Senior Brian Dunic has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Germany next year.

Two NWU Students Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

A class on the psychological reactions to nature inspired Brittany Lester to further research connections to nature, and ultimately led to her decision to pursue graduate school in the field.

Psychology Major Turns Mother Nature into Her Classroom

Sophomore Hanna Arrowsmith will perform in Nebraska Wesleyan's opera, "Gallantry" on April 7 and April 9. Arrowsmith is a biology and modern languages major who is planning a career in psychiatry. She found an unexpected passion for opera after taking a

Biology Major Finds Her Way to Opera Stage

Senior Olivia Finnegan performs her solo show at the Fringe World Festival in Australia.

Study Abroad Experiences Inspire Student's Show at World Theatre Festival

James Perry has been honored for his work with an inmate outreach program that brings together NWU students enrolled in a criminal justice course with inmates at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

Inmate Outreach Earns Professor "Love of Neighbor" Award

Professors Kelly Clancy (left) and John Spilker (right) and student Flor de Maria Garcia-Garza (not pictured) were honors with this year's Advocate For Diversity Award.

Professors, Student Recognized for Diversity Advocacy

Senior political science majors Evan Mathers and Ryan Klute received a Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant to travel to Scotland to study the impact of 16-year-old voters on elections.

Students Travel to Scotland to Study World's Youngest Voters

Sophomores Michaela Wells and Laurel Withee traveled to Flint, Michigan, to distribute 15,000 bottles of water over two days last summer.

Students Travel to Flint, Michigan to Explore Water Crisis

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90%

of 2017 grads had jobs or
grad school placement before graduation

 


 

32%

Higher salaries than grads from
Nebraska's public colleges

 


 

98%

Received financial aid

 


 

100%

Do internships, research or study abroad
 

 


 

12:1

Student-to-faculty ratio

 


 

19

Average class size

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