Ranking

Largest business schools in Nebraska by degrees awarded

Bellevue University ranks first with 414 master’s degrees in business in 2024–25, according to IPEDS.

14 business schools in Nebraska awarded 1,236 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 35th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. Bellevue University awarded the most, 414. A business school here is a college that awarded at least one master’s degree in any program of NCES’s CIP family 52, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services: the MBA and every other business master’s alike. The rule is broad by construction.

Master’s degrees in business awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection

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Master’s degrees in business awarded, July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
Rank	Name	Figure	Nationally
1	Bellevue University	414	116th of 1,232
2	University of Nebraska at Omaha	216	243rd of 1,232
3	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	190	272nd of 1,232
4	Creighton University	148	326th of 1,232
5	Wayne State College	59	589th of 1,232
6	Chadron State College	52	631st of 1,232
7	Doane University	44	685th of 1,232
8	University of Nebraska at Kearney	34	761st of 1,232
9	Concordia University-Nebraska	24	876th of 1,232
10	Nebraska Wesleyan University	21	917th of 1,232
11	Midland University	15	1,006th of 1,232
12	Peru State College	7	1,122nd of 1,232
12	York University	7	1,122nd of 1,232
14	College of Saint Mary	5	1,155th of 1,232

What this data cannot show

How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
Every institution in Nebraska in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.

Sources

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.

Compiled automatically from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 30, 2026