Welcome from the President

Thank you for taking time to learn about Concordia University, Nebraska.

We look forward to getting to know you and how we might help you meet your educational and career goals. As you learn more about us, we want you to know a few things about us:

  • We are a Lutheran, Christian university

  • Our core commitments to every student include:
    • Community: the opportunity for you to learn from and with faculty and other students in a rigorous academic setting where relationships matter.

    • Calling: the opportunity to grow in your understanding of God's call to you in faith and career.

    • Christ: the opportunity to know more fully Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world and the one who loves you most of all.

  • Our students number more than 2100 undergraduate and graduates from more than 40 states and several foreign countries.

  • Nearly 90 percent of our health professions and pre-law graduates are accepted by medical and law colleges.

  • We are the leader in placing graduates in the professional ministries of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

  • Concordia is the No. 1 Nebraska school in the Regional College-Midwest category of best baccalaureate colleges in the 2011 U.S. News and World Report survey of America's Best Colleges.

  • Concordia is No. 6 on the "Great Schools, Great Prices" list for Regional Colleges-Midwest in the 2011 U.S. News and World Report survey of America's Best Colleges.

  • We lead the nation in total all-time NAIA Scholar-Athletes and led the country in 2010-11 in NAIA Scholar Teams.

  • The Walz Human Performance Complex is now open for use to the entire campus community and houses our Health, Human Performance program and is the focal point of our intercollegiate and intramural athletic programs.

  • Last year we awarded more than $10 million in scholarship aid to our students.

  • Our graduate and degree completion programs continue to grow and expand and are now delivered face to face in Columbus, Lincoln, Omaha, Seward and online. Learn more about those here: www.cune.edu/Masters or www.cune.edu/DCP.

At Concordia, students are priority No. 1!

At Concordia, students receive an excellent, holistic, Christ-centered education and upon graduation are prepared to serve and lead in church and world.

We’d love to have you come join us: for a visit or to prepare for your career!

Rev. Dr. Brian L. Friedrich

By the Numbers

  • Among 2010 graduates, 80% of students majoring in Exercise Science, Fitness Studies, Sport Studies, and Community Health have been placed in full-time field related areas six months post graduation.  Students wishing to enter graduate school have experienced a 100% acceptance rate.
  • Within the past three years, 94% of music majors who are actively looking for full-time employment received a full-time position within a year of graduation.
  • Ninety percent of our graduates in the natural sciences gained employment or positions in health career programs, graduate school, science education, and the science industry.
  • Of Concordia's social science graduates since December of 2009, 86% are either pursuing advanced degrees or employed full time.
  • Since 2004, 96% of our graduates majoring in theology have been placed in full-time church vocations throughout the United States of America.