Creighton University

• Overview
• Faculty
• Students
• Alumni
• Architecture and Master Plan Receive National Recognition:
• Endowment
• Additional Information Points

• Honors and Awards

Creighton University, founded in 1878, is one of 28 Jesuit universities in the United States designed in the Society of Jesus tradition and Catholic identity of academic excellence and service to others. The University is located in Omaha, Nebraska.

The University provides its 4,000 undergraduate and 2,800 professional and graduate students an atmosphere that challenges them academically and professionally, and supports and inspires them individually.

In addition to the College of Arts and Sciences, which enrolls 38 percent of the University’s students, Creighton has the College of Business Administration, University College, the Graduate School, and the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, and Pharmacy and Health Professions.

Creighton offers its students faculty-led and independent study-abroad programs in nearly 40 countries.

Creighton’s undergraduate chemistry program ranks in the top 1.5 percent of the nation’s universities that produce American Chemical Society-certified bachelor’s chemists. Creighton’s biology department ranks in the top 3.5 percent, and the department of physics and the department of environmental and atmospheric sciences are in the top 12 percent.

The athletic teams are strong on the court and field plus, notably, in the classroom. With 95 percent graduation rate for student athletes, Creighton is tied for 15th among all NCAA Division 1 universities and ranks first in the Missouri Valley Conference.

The University’s academic medical center, Creighton University Medical Center, is the busiest trauma center in the state, home to a top-ranked program in cardiology, and internationally recognized for research in hereditary cancers and osteoporosis.

• With a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1, Creighton retains 717 full-time faculty and 189 part-time faculty as well as hundreds who contribute their services on a volunteer basis.
• Creighton University faculty members have received Fulbright and other fellowships, including being named scholars-in-residence at the Securities and Exchange Commission and Congressional Budget Office. Research awards to Creighton for the 2004-2005 academic year totaled more than $42 million, $10 million more than the previous year.

• The academic profile of the 2006 freshman class places Creighton among the top five private universities in the Midwest and among the top 10 Catholic universities in the nation.
• Of the fall 2006 freshman class, 73 percent were National Honor Society inductees; 46 percent of the students with class rank, ranked in the top 10 percent.

Hometowns of undergraduates.

• 53 percent are from more than 200 miles away
• 240 are from the East Coast, South, Southwest, Mountain or Western states
• 260 are from Midwestern cities that are more than 200 miles away from campus
• 135 are from outside Nebraska but within 200 miles
• 315 are from Nebraska and within 200 miles of campus

Creighton freshmen for the fall of 2006 come from the following metro or state areas:

• 60 from the Minneapolis area 70 from the Denver/Colorado Springs area
• 75 from Chicago/Milwaukee 85 from Kansas City or St. Louis
• 130 from Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Honolulu, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas and Houston
• 140 from Iowa or South Dakota
• 340 from Nebraska (260 from the greater Omaha area)
• 65 from the other areas of the East, South, Midwest or abroad

Diversity

• About 170 students of color, representing numerous ethnic groups and countries, are a part of the class of 2006. These individuals identify themselves as members of 30 different faiths; 60 percent identify themselves as Roman Catholic.

Legacy

• 20 percent of the 2006 freshman class members are “legacies,” with family ties to the University; children of alumni comprise 16 percent of the group.
• Creighton’s student body represents all 47 states and more than 40 countries. In 2006, of the 6,800 full-time students, 18 percent were minority students, and 3.5 percent were international students.

Student Achievements

• Creighton University students engage in a wide variety of research, scholarship and creative projects. They earn recognition from national academic honor societies and receive such prestigious awards as Fulbright, as well as fellowships from Goldwater, the James Madison Foundation and National Science Foundation.

• U.S. News & World Report lists Creighton’s alumni participation in annual fund giving at 29% for fiscal year 2005—seven percentage points higher than the number two-ranked university.
• More than 56,000 current Creighton alums live in 90 countries. Sixty-eight percent live in the U.S. outside Nebraska, with 30 percent living in Nebraska. The largest numbers of alumni living outside the U.S. reside in Canada, Japan and Malaysia.
• More than 95 percent of our graduates are employed, involved in volunteer work or attending graduate/professional school within six months of graduation.

• Creighton’s California Mall was chosen for a Citation in Landscape Architecture and the University also was recognized for Outstanding Project in the Master Planning category by American School & University and was featured in the magazine’s annual Architectural Portfolio published in November 2005. A citation is regarded as the top award yearly and is given in each architectural category. Only three projects were chosen to receive awards in the Master Planning category.

• The current endowment is more than $239 million and is anticipated to exceed $500 million by the end of 2010.
• Creighton University's endowment fund of $239,517,200 ranks fifth among the 28 Jesuit universities in the country.

• Creighton University ranks No. 1 in U.S. News & World Report (Universities-Master’s category) for three consecutive years, Creighton is also cited as outstanding by other publications, including The Princeton Review, Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and Peterson’s Best Colleges.
• The freshman class consistently ranks in the top five among Midwestern universities of more than 3,000 students, and in the top 10 Catholic universities nationwide.
• U.S. News & World Report ranks Creighton in the top 66 American universities for quality of research opportunities in which undergraduates collaborate with faculty.
• Creighton’s Online Ministries provides one of the finest faith-based websites in the world – with an average of 1.4 million visitors each month from 125 countries. It can be found at: www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/online.html