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Undergraduate and graduate students across the college gain hands-on experience working with faculty on impactful research projects, including Richard Wood’s research group in Civil and Environmental Engineering. The students having been working on an ongoing Federal Railroad Administration sponsored project to annotate and classify railroad infrastructure features within high resolution, 2D imagery collected using uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) drones.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering is entering a pivotal new chapter, propelled by record-setting achievements that signal growing impact across the state and region– the largest graduating class in its history and an all-time high of student enrollment, with significant growth in undergraduate enrollment over the past four years.

Fall 2026 Enrollment

• Total: 4,594 students

• 3,990 undergraduate students - nearly a 2% increase from Fall 2025; 21.5% increase from Fall 2022

• First-time freshmen headcount is up 4.9% compared to Fall 2025

• 604 graduate students

• Largest major: Mechanical Engineering (986 students)