University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was chartered by the Nebraska Legislature on February 15, 1869, as the state's public land-grant university. It enrolled 23,954 students in fall 2025, about 19,400 of them undergraduates, across its City and East campuses and Nebraska Innovation Campus, which together cover 2,815 acres. Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference in 2011. Husker football has played at Memorial Stadium since 1923, and every home game there has sold out since 1962.