Tri County Public Schools, the public school district based in De Witt, Jefferson County.

The Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center is a federal livestock research station at 844 Road 313 near Clay Center, in Clay County, run by the USDA Agricultural Research Service. It covers just under 35,000 acres and has worked on beef, sheep and swine problems since 1964, splitting its effort roughly half to beef cattle, a third to swine and the rest to sheep.

Umoⁿhoⁿ Nation Public Schools, the public school district based in Macy, Thurston County.

Private Seventh-day Adventist university in Lincoln, founded in 1891 and formerly Union College.

University of Nebraska at Kearney — 4-Year College / University in Kearney, Nebraska.