About The College

The College's mission is to:

• educate undergraduate students of the College of Arts and Sciences to a high level of competence in their major fields through instruction that integrates formal course work with experience in research and creative activity.
• advance knowledge through research and creative activity that are national and international in stature.
• provide all undergraduate students with a range of knowledge and a broad intellectual experience that can form the basis for critical and imaginative thinking, thereby enabling them to become tolerant and responsible members of a global society.
• provide undergraduate and graduate students across the campus with courses in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to meet their academic needs in their major programs.
• serve the university and community-atlarge and provide educational leadership for the state and region.

We will help you:

• discover, develop, and appreciate your creative potential.
• understand and value your cultural heritage and the diverse cultural heritages of others.
• prepare to participate actively, responsibly, and knowledgeably in a world where science and technology are becoming increasingly complex.
• obtain the formal knowledge and experience necessary for you to take the first steps in achieving your career goal.

The College
The University of Nebraska started instruction in 1871 as the College of Ancient and Modern Literature, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, later to become the College of Arts and Sciences.

Now, as in the past, the College occupies the central position at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln and in the University of Nebraska system of higher education. It is the oldest, largest, and most diverse college in the University and state.

The College, encompassing a comprehensive range of academic disciplines, comprises more that seventeen departments, schools, institutes, and centers with approximately 370 permanent faculty, 4,500 undergraduate majors and 1,200 graduate students. Virtually all UNL undergraduates take courses in the College.

The College offers two undergraduate degrees (BA and BS) involving more than 50 major and minor programs in individual departments, interdisciplinary areas of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and 16 pre-professional programs (like pre-medicine, pre-law, and predentistry).

Essential to the mission of the College of Arts and Sciences is the role of its faculty as scholarteachers. The quality of their research and creative activities and their commitment to teaching enable them to expose their students to a wide range of knowledge and to the processes by which new knowledge is acquired.