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CollegeROIData

College Debt & ROI in Ne

20 colleges and universities in Ne with 323 school+major combinations analyzed.

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20
Schools
$27K
Avg Median Debt
$56K
Avg Year 1 Earnings
100%
Avg Graduation Rate

All Schools in Ne

Chadron State College

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $20K
Avg earnings: $50K/yr

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $60K/yr

Wayne State College

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

University of Nebraska at Omaha

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $60K/yr

Summit Christian College

private · 1 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $40K/yr

University of Nebraska at Kearney

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Union Adventist University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Peru State College

public · 17 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Creighton University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $60K/yr

Hastings College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

College of Saint Mary

private · 15 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Doane University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $59K/yr

Nebraska Wesleyan University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Midland University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 99%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Clarkson College

private · 6 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $32K
Avg earnings: $63K/yr

Concordia University-Nebraska

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $34K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

York University

private · 16 majors · Grad rate: 99%

Avg debt: $35K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Bellevue University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $36K
Avg earnings: $63K/yr

Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health

private · 4 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $37K
Avg earnings: $62K/yr

Bryan College of Health Sciences

private · 4 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $40K
Avg earnings: $60K/yr

Frequently Asked Questions

CollegeROIData tracks 20 colleges and universities in Ne, covering 323 school+major combinations with debt and earnings data.

The average median student debt across all school+major combinations in Ne is $27K. First-year earnings average $56K.

Among tracked schools, Chadron State College has one of the lowest average debt levels in Ne. Use our school pages to compare ROI scores by major.

The this entity record above pulls directly from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. college cost, debt, and post-graduation earnings distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. degree-granting institutions. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, 2026.