Creighton University

Private · Moderately Selective · NE

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School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationNE · Midwest

SettingUrban

Undergrads4,348

Student:faculty11:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate73.9%

6-yr grad rate83.4%

Drop-out rate5.8%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$49k

Out-of-state tuition$49k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity30.7%

Gender diversity57.9%

International1.9%

IdentityRoman Catholic

Overview

Creighton University is a Jesuit Catholic university in Omaha, Nebraska, and one of the most health-sciences-heavy Jesuit institutions in the country. Its identity blends a traditional Jesuit liberal-arts core with an unusually large cluster of professional health schools for a university of its size.

Academics

Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing are all housed at Creighton, giving undergraduates on a pre-health track access to advising, shadowing, and research connections that many standalone liberal-arts colleges cannot offer. The Jesuit core curriculum requires coursework in philosophy, theology, and ethics across all majors, and business and health sciences are the most heavily enrolled undergraduate paths.

Campus & student life

The campus sits just northwest of downtown Omaha in a compact, walkable footprint, and most undergraduates live on campus for at least their first two years. Bluejay basketball is the emotional center of campus life, drawing strong student turnout, and a service ethic tied to the Jesuit mission shows up in extensive volunteer and community-engagement programs.

Getting in

Creighton's application evaluates the whole student, with essays and extracurricular service or leadership carrying real weight alongside grades and coursework rigor, consistent with Jesuit institutions generally. Pre-health applicants in particular benefit from knowing the university's own graduate health schools sit on the same campus.

After graduation

Graduates headed toward medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, or nursing benefit from a well-worn in-house pipeline into Creighton's own graduate programs, and the university's health-sciences reputation extends its name recognition well beyond the Midwest among pre-health advisors nationally.

Worth knowing

The combination of a full slate of graduate health schools with a relatively small undergraduate college is unusual, and it shapes pre-health advising, research opportunities, and campus culture more than at most Jesuit schools of comparable size.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate79.8%

Enrolled mid-50%SAT 1243–1428 · ACT 26–31

Test policyoptional

Rec letters1

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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