Quote Originally Posted by boitoirich View Post
Great stuff! I love the UNO revitalization, especially the bit about going from 0 students living on campus to 2500 with demand being strong. That is an unqualified success story.
It really has been a lot of hard work and investment, but both the university and city are reaping the benefits. UNO was unaffectionately called "Omaha High" or "Dodge Street High" and was completely a commuter campus with very little campus pride. Now UNO is the fastest growing university in the Nebraska system with faster % and raw number growth than the flagship in Lincoln.




The graduate programs have also grown 10% this year. 12% more out of state students are enrolled than last year too.

UNO will obviously never be UNL, but it can be a university to employ the next generation of workers in Omaha. Local business leaders realized the potential here when they donated millions to build a new building for the business college.


This is a cool shot of where the main campus sits compared to the urban areas of Omaha.


In that aerial you can see two universities(UNO and Creighton), two medical schools(UNMC and Creighton) and 4 Fortune 500 HQs. And my house .