The 25 Schools Stocked With Jocks
1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Google “University of Nebraska Lincoln” and the second top result is Huskers.com, home to the university’s Athletic Department. The school is set to join the Big Ten conference in 2011–2012 and slam-dunks the No. 1 spot on Newsweek’s list of colleges stocked with jocks.
But UNL is more than the sum of its Heisman Trophy winners (which happens to be three). It was the first institution west of the Mississippi River to award a doctoral degree (in physics in 1896) and claims to be the birthplace of ecology as a discipline and home to the world’s first undergraduate psychology laboratory, which helps account for its 17th rank among the most desirable large schools.
Student enrollment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is just under 25,000. Tuition for the 2009–2010 academic year was approximately $7,362 for Nebraska residents; double that for out-of-state students at $14,724.
