Graduate and Adult Students

Nebraska Wesleyan University will expand its graduate program offerings next fall with the area’s only Master of Social Work degree.

The degree will have an emphasis on advanced trauma conscious social work practice.

Nebraska Wesleyan University is partnering with Southeast Community College to open more doors to bachelor’s degree completion.

On Tuesday, October 10, Nebraska Wesleyan University President Fred Ohles and Southeast Community College President Paul Illich signed a formal agreement for the NWU Pathways Scholarship Program.

Twenty-two companies, hospitals and medical clinics have joined Nebraska Wesleyan University as corporate partners.

The university's corporate partnership program provides employees with discounted tuition in Nebraska Wesleyan's adult and graduate programs. Undergraduate completion choices include business, organizational leadership and communication, social work, criminal justice and nursing (RN to BSN). Certificates are also available in project management.

Tami Thompson, assistant professor of business, has been named the new program director for Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program.

Thompson has taught at NWU since 2003 when she started as an adjunct instructor in the undergraduate business program for adults. She has taught in the MBA Program since its start in 2014, and most recently served as the Business Program Director for the university’s adult undergraduate programs.

Beginning this fall, Nebraska Wesleyan University will offer discounted tuition to CHI Health employees who enroll in RN to BSN or MSN and MSN/MBA classes.

NWU Adult and Graduate programs offer working adults accelerated programs in Lincoln, Omaha and Council Bluffs, Iowa. All CHI Health-affiliated nurses receive a tuition discount of $15 per credit hour. Tuition rates with the discount are:

• RN to BSN — $285
• MSN and MSN/MBA — $385

Learn more here about NWU's programs, classes, tuition and locations.

Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its academic honors list for students enrolled in the adult program for the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year.

Nebraska Wesleyan’s adult program provides nontraditional students the opportunity to earn a college degree while pursuing a career.

Students must have a minimum grade point average of 3.75 on a 4.00 scale.

Two factors convinced James Rigg to return to college after 20 years: personal growth and his teenage children.

“I am setting an example for my teenage children, not only for the importance of a good college career, but also to show them how important it is to focus on higher education when you get out of high school,” he said.

Last September the country’s attention turned to Omaha, Nebraska, when the University of Nebraska Medical Center was asked to care for an American doctor who tested positive for the Ebola virus. It was one of a handful of medical facilities in the country designated to treat Ebola patients.

And behind the scenes was Michelle Schwedhelm, director of the Biocontainment Patient Care Unit located inside The Nebraska Medical Center. After years of training for possible Ebola treatment, the situation was real and Schwedhelm was responsible for making sure all plans worked.

Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its Advantage Program academic honors list for the fall semester of the 2014-2015 academic year. 

The Advantage Program provides nontraditional students the opportunity to earn a college degree while pursuing a career. 

Advantage Program students must have a minimum grade point average of 3.75 on a 4.00 scale to be named to the Academic Honors List.

See fall semester honorees.

Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its Advantage Program academic honors list for the spring semester of the 2013-2014 academic year.

The Advantage Program provides nontraditional students the opportunity to earn a college degree while pursuing a career.

Advantage Program students must have a minimum grade point average of 3.75 on a 4.00 scale.

See a complete list of Advantage Program academic honors list honorees.