5000 St. Paul Ave.
Lincoln, Nebraska 68504

Nebraska Wesleyan University is a private, four-year liberal arts college, located in Lincoln, Nebraska's historic University Place neighborhood. The university was founded in 1887 by Methodists, to provide a liberal arts education in a Christian environment.

Nebraska Wesleyan University offers more than 49 majors, 14 pre-professional programs, and three master's degree programs. Undergraduate degrees can be pursued in the departments of art, biology, business, accounting and economics, chemistry, communication and theatre arts, education, English, health and human performances, health sciences, history, mathematics and computer science, modern languages, music; physics, political sciences, psychology, religion and philosophy, and sociology-anthropology-social work. The university also offers two interdisciplinary departments of gender studies and global studies, and an undergraduate pre-professional program in forensic science.

Quick Facts

Nebraska Wesleyan University's enrollment is more than 1,600 undergraduate students, 204 graduate students, with 90 percent of undergraduates from Nebraska. Ten percent are from 24 states and 22 countries and 61 percent of the total student body lives on campus.

The student-faculty ratio is 13 to 1 with an average class size of 19 students. Nebraska Wesleyan University has more than 100 full-time faculty and 79 percent of the faculty holds Ph.D or other terminal degrees in their fields

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Nebraska Wesleyan University is affiliated with the Nebraska Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

The university's minister serves the campus community and is available for personal counseling, religious and vocational counseling, and spiritual guidance.

Nebraska Wesleyan University students and faculty have received many prestigious grants and awards. Students have been the recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship, Fulbright Grants, Goldwater Scholarships, National Security Exchange Program Scholarship, Rotary Scholarship, Truman Scholarships, Udall Scholarships, Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship, Critical Language Scholarship, NOAA Hollings Scholarship and the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The faculty has won awards and honors including, three Carnegie Nebraska Professor of the Year awards since 2001, Fulbright Scholarships to China, Korea, and Ukraine, Sabbatical leave for worldwide research, and are authors of many articles, journals, and books.

The athletic teams are affiliated with the Great Plains Athletic Conference, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III. Students can participate in varsity baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, football, men's golf, women's golf, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, men's tennis, women's tennis, volleyball, and spirit squad.

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