Here you will find a short summary about Omaha and Council Bluffs area colleges.  Please click on the college name for more information about that college.

• Alegent Health School Of Radiologic Technology

  Students attend Alegent Health in Omaha, NE, a large city. The school is proud of its American Lutheran status. Alegent Health is a private, not-for-profit institution. The school degrees go up to the Associate's degree.
  
  

• Bellevue University

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  Bellevue University, founded in 1966, is a not-for-profit institution situated in Bellevue, Nebraska.

• Capitol School Of Hairstyling West

  Capitol School Of Hairstyling West is located in Omaha, NE (a large city). The school is a private, for-profit institution. The highest degree level offered by Capitol School Of Hairstyling West is the Associate's degree.

• Clarkson College

  Clarkson College is a private college located in Omaha, Nebraska that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the health sciences. Areas of study include nursing, medical imaging, health care business management, health information management, physical therapist assistant, and radiologic technology. It is affiliated with the Reformed Episcopal Church and the Nebraska Medical Center. As of 2008, enrollment was 822 students.

• College of Saint Mary

  College of Saint Mary is a Catholic women's college located in Omaha, Nebraska. As of 2006, there were 917 undergraduates and 16 graduate students.  The academic programs at Saint Mary are primarily career-focused, with majors offered in fields such as medical technology, business administration, and nursing. Courses of study in the liberal arts are also available, including English. Students can receive an Associate's, Bachelor's, or Master's degree upon graduation. Saint Mary athletes compete in the NAIA as the Flames. Basketball, softball, volleyball, cross-country, and soccer are the sports offered. All of the athletic programs are very competitive and have a long history of excellence.^[update]

• The Creative Center

  The Creative Center is located in Omaha, NE. The school is accredited by the Nebraska Department of Education and the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) to offer an Associate of Occupational Studies in Design, Illustration and Computer Graphics.. The highest degree level offered by The Creative Center is an Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Graphic Design.

• Creighton University

  Creighton University is a university located in Omaha, Nebraska. The university was founded as Creighton College in 1878 through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who stipulated in her will that a school be established in memory of her husband, prominent Omaha businessman Edward Creighton. Edward's brother, John Creighton, is credited with fostering and sustaining the university's early growth and endowment. Sitting on a 120-acre (0.49 km²) campus just outside Omaha's downtown business district, the university currently enrolls about 6,992 students. Creighton is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
  

• EQ School of Hair Design

  E Q School Of Hair Design is found in Council Bluffs, IA. Council Bluffs is a small city. The school is a private, for-profit institution. Students can earn degrees up to and including the Associate's degree at E Q School Of Hair Design.

• Grace University

  Grace University is a private Bible college located in Omaha, Nebraska. The university includes three separate colleges: Grace College of the Bible, Grace College of Graduate Studies, and Grace College of Continuing Education.

• Iowa Western Community College

  Iowa Western Community College is a community college located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. It was founded in 1967. The college offers more than 80 programs in vocational and technical areas, as well as in liberal arts. IWCC is home to a flight school for the various aircraft related professions.  IWCC’s athletic department fields both men’s and women’s sports teams, which participate in football, baseball, basketball and soccer, among others. The college's campus is home to several clubs and organizations like Latino/CASS, Marketing Club, PTK and The Rover, IWCC's Student Newspaper.

• ITT Technical Institute

  ITT Technical Institute (often shortened to ITT Tech) is a private, for-profit, technical institute with 105 campuses in 37 states of the United States. It was founded in 1946 as Educational Services, Inc. and has been headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, since 1969. ITT Tech is owned and operated by ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI), a publicly traded company. ITT Educational Services, Inc. (ESI) was spun off by ITT Corporation through an initial public offering in 1994, with parent company ITT as an 83% shareholder.

• Kaplan University

  Once the sleepy-sounding American Institute of Commerce, based in Davenport, Iowa, this venerable business training school was absorbed by the Kaplan test preparation juggernaut in November 2000 and promptly re-arranged into Kaplan University. The transformation since the merger has been thorough and complete: with 25,000 full- or part-time students, all taking courses online, Kaplan University is now about the size of a state university and offers certificates, associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in one or more of more than a dozen different career training regimens, as well as Masters of Science degrees in Business, Education and Criminal Justice. Some of its degree-granting programs can be completed in as little as a year. In September 2006, Kaplan University announced an interesting twist to its online MBA program, which is now being offered in a novel collaboration with Newsweek magazine. Both companies are owned by the Washington Post.

• Metropolitan Community College

  Metropolitan Community College (Metro, or formerly, Metro Tech) is a public community college with multiple campuses located throughout the Omaha, Nebraska metro area.

• Nebraska Christian College

  Nebraska Christian College is an accredited baccalaureate college of the Association for Biblical Higher Education, located in Papillion, Nebraska. Nebraska Christian College offers a Bible-based education to prepare people for service and ministry. The college is affiliated with the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.

• Nebraska Methodist College Of Nursing & Allied Health

  The main campus of Nebraska Methodist College is in Omaha, NE. The school is a United Methodist institution. Nebraska Methodist College is a private, not-for-profit school. The school offers degrees up to the Post-Master's certificate.

• Nebraska Methodist College

  Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health is located in Omaha, Nebraska. The college is a coed, private, baccalaureate college which is regionally accredited.

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

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  The University of Nebraska at Omaha is the Omaha campus of the University of Nebraska system, and is the third-largest institution of higher education in Nebraska, after the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Metropolitan Community College. After its foundation as Omaha University in 1908, the institution became the public Municipal University of Omaha in 1931. It assumed its current name in 1968 following a merger into the University of Nebraska. The institution has a strong tradition of serving commuter students from within Omaha, but in recent years has developed student housing to better serve students from Nebraska, the United States, and the world for whom the commute is not convenient.

• University of Nebraska Medical Center

  The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a public academic health sciences center located on 42nd and Emile Street in Omaha, Nebraska. UNMC is one of the largest medical centers in the surrounding area within Nebraska and Iowa and is home to many students from around the state. There are many facilities in an area expanding from 40th and Leavenworth to 35th and up to Dodge Street. The University also has plans on expanding their facilities in order to accommodate more students in studies and also research. UNMC currently enrolls about 3,100 students, and its president is Harold Maurer.

• Vatterott College

  Founded in 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri as a career training institution, Vatterott College has since that time expanded to a multi-campus institution with 19 campuses across the Midwest. The College provides career focused training and educational opportunities in the health care, business, computer science, and technical fields. Vatterott offers diploma, associate degree, and bachelor degree programs. Diploma programs range from 13 to 60 weeks in duration, and associate degree programs are between 80 and 90 weeks long.

• Xenon International School Of Hair Design II Inc

  Xenon is located in Omaha, NE. The school is a private, for-profit institution. The highest degree level offered by Xenon is the Associate's degree.

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