Find Colleges for Your GPA

Find target, reach, and safety schools based on your GPA, with acceptance rates and test score data for thousands of colleges.

Where your 4.2 fits: Safety, Target or Reach, from each college's reported average GPA and acceptance rate. A guide, not a prediction.

Colleges in NebraskaEvery college we list in Nebraska, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

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University of Nebraska LincolnLincoln, Nebraska Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%560–670 R&W538–660 Math
ACT, middle 50%22–28
University of Nebraska at OmahaOmaha, Nebraska Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,87% admitted
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ACT, middle 50%19–26
Creighton UniversityOmaha, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,80% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%620–708 R&W623–720 Math
ACT, middle 50%26–31
University of Nebraska at KearneyKearney, Nebraska Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,89% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%495–575 R&W410–550 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–26
Concordia University NebraskaSeward, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,86% admitted
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Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityLincoln, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,80% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%490–660 R&W530–630 Math
ACT, middle 50%22–27
Doane UniversityCrete, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,98% admitted
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Midland UniversityFremont, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,66% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%490–590 R&W473–580 Math
ACT, middle 50%17–23
Hastings CollegeHastings, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,72% admitted
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ACT, middle 50%26–30
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied HealthOmaha, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,73% admitted
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Clarkson CollegeOmaha, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,78% admitted
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Union Adventist UniversityLincoln, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,100% admitted
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Bryan College of Health SciencesLincoln, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,67% admitted
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College of Saint MaryOmaha, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,45% admitted
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ACT, middle 50%18–26
York UniversityYork, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,52% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%450–540 R&W430–570 Math
ACT, middle 50%16–23
Summit Christian CollegeGering, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearModerate to get into,42% admitted
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Metropolitan Community College AreaOmaha, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Bellevue UniversityBellevue, Nebraska Private nonprofit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Southeast Community College AreaLincoln, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Central Community CollegeGrand Island, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Northeast Community CollegeNorfolk, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Wayne State CollegeWayne, Nebraska Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Mid-Plains Community CollegeNorth Platte, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Chadron State CollegeChadron, Nebraska Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Western Nebraska Community CollegeScottsbluff, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Peru State CollegePeru, Nebraska Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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University of Nebraska Medical CenterOmaha, Nebraska Public, 4-year
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Nebraska Indian Community CollegeMacy, Nebraska Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Nebraska College of Technical AgricultureCurtis, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Little Priest Tribal CollegeWinnebago, Nebraska Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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How to read the figures

Example: how a college appears in the list
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Public, 4-yearHard to get into,16% admitted
Average GPA3.90As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W680–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
  • How hard it is to get in: the share of first-year applicants the college admitted for fall 2024. Very hard is under 10%, Hard 10–24%, Moderate 25–49%, Fairly easy 50–74% and Easy 75% or more. Open admission colleges accept everyone, so they have no rate.
  • Average GPA: the average high school GPA of the college's first-year students, from the college's own yearly report (its Common Data Set), with the year and, when the college says, whether it's weighted. Colleges calculate GPA in different ways, so use it as a rough guide, not a cutoff.
  • Safety, Target and Reach: with your GPA in the box, where it fits at each college that reports an average GPA. Your GPA is compared with the college's average (0.15 or more above it, close to it, or below it), and the acceptance rate decides how much that counts: a college that admits under 15% of applicants is a reach for everyone. Colleges that don't report an average get no label: we never estimate one.
  • SAT: the middle 50% of scores of first-year students who sent them, for reading and writing (R&W) and math. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above it.
  • ACT: the middle 50% of overall ACT scores, read the same way.

A dash means the college didn't report that figure.

Where the data comes from

FigureSourceData year
Acceptance rate, SAT and ACT rangesThe U.S. Department of Education's yearly college surveyFall 2024
Average high school GPA (268 colleges)Each college's own yearly report (Common Data Set)2023–24 to 2025–26
Average SAT for the SAT filter and sortCollege Scorecard, U.S. Department of EducationLatest available

Each college's page also has its enrollment, net price, admission factors and policies on AP and dual credit from the same survey, and gives the year of every figure. Admission policies change every year, so check anything important with the college's admissions office.

Sources

Reviewed by the GPA Calculator team · Updated October 2026

  1. IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  2. College Scorecard dataU.S. Department of Education (June 10, 2026 release)
  3. Common Data Set InitiativeThe standard format colleges use to publish their own admissions data