What You'll Actually Pay
Price after grants
$20,472 to $35,090 a year, depending on income.
College Scorecard 2024 estimate
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Full cost before aid: $63,423 a year. Average need-based aid package: $37,128.Aid and debt
37.8%
receive need-based grants
$33,313
average debt at graduation
2,233
students got merit aid
about 46% of undergraduates
$23,263
average merit award
Getting In
Key dates
Transfer Deadlines
Test scores
SAT, middle 50% of those who submitted: 1280–1410 · 8% of the class submitted
ACT, middle 50% of those who submitted: 26–31 · 40% of the class submitted
37.3% were in the top 10% of their high school class.
What they value
- Very important
- Course rigor (AP/IB)
- GPA
- Important
- SAT/ACT scores
- Personal essay
- Considered
- Class rank
- Recommendations
- Extracurriculars
- Special talent
- Character
- First-gen status
- Volunteer work
- Demonstrated interest
- Not considered
- Legacy status
- Where you're from
- In-state residency
- Work experience
What this means for you
Creighton rates course rigor as Very Important, and your essay as Important.
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Rigor means AP, IB, and dual enrollment carry real weight — make sure your mix of AP or IB courses is strong. A strong essay can differentiate an otherwise average application.
Creighton rates demonstrated interest 'Considered' — it can tip a close decision, without being decisive.
Source: Common Data Set 2025–26, Section C7 (admissions factors)
Creighton just showed you what it values in an application. Use that to write a Why-Creighton essay that's actually about you — not a template.
Get sourced starting points for your essayStudent Life
42.3% of Creighton classes have fewer than 20 students.
42.3%
under 20 students
52.9%
20 to 49
4.8%
50 or more
Every class section counts, labs and seminars included; first-year courses tend to be larger. Creighton CDS 2025–26, I-3.
11:1
student:faculty ratio
Campus life
75.1%
first-years from out of state
51.87%
live on campus
22.7%
of men in fraternities
32.7%
of women in sororities
Who attends
- White68.5%
- Hispanic10.9%
- Asian7.7%
- Multiracial6.5%
- Black2.7%
- Unknown / other1.5%
Enrolled undergraduates; international students are counted separately and not included. Creighton CDS 2025–26, B2.
Popular majors
Will They Graduate?
73.1% of Creighton students graduate in 4 years.
73.1%
finish in 4 years
Entered fall 2019
82.7%
finish in 6 years
Entered fall 2019
92%
return after first year
Finishing late means paying for extra semesters, so the 4-year rate is the one that shows the cost.
Students with Pell Grants
76.2% finish in 6 years, against 82.7% of all students.
A 6.5-point gap: Pell Grant students finish less often than students overall.
City & Culture
Beyond the data — what it's actually like to spend four years in Omaha.
Creighton's campus sits at the edge of downtown Omaha, a few blocks from the Old Market district's cobblestone streets, restaurants and galleries.
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Omaha is home to four Fortune 500 headquarters — Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific, Mutual of Omaha and Kiewit Corporation — plus Gallup and three of the nation's ten largest architecture and engineering firms, giving business and pre-health students an employer base within walking or short rideshare distance rather than a drive to another city.
The City
Mid-size city
Omaha, NE
Best For
Notable alumni
Notable Alumni
Bob Gibson
Played both basketball and baseball at Creighton, majoring in sociology, before an MLB Hall of Fame career pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1959-1975, winning two Cy Young Awards and two World Series titles.
Class of 1957
Joe Ricketts
Earned his BA at Creighton before founding what became TD Ameritrade; he later became the controlling owner of the Chicago Cubs.
Michael P. Anderson
Earned a Master of Science in physics at Creighton before becoming a NASA astronaut; he died as payload commander of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003.
Class of 1990
Brad Ashford
Earned his Juris Doctor at Creighton before serving in the Nebraska Legislature and as the U.S. Representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.
Class of 1974
Alumni selected for name recognition and range of fields. Not from the Common Data Set.
Traditions
Traditions
Founders Week Convocation
An annual convocation and awards ceremony each fall celebrating Creighton's 1878 founding, held with both in-person and virtual options across the Omaha and Phoenix campuses.
School of Law Red Mass
Creighton's School of Law hosts the only Red Mass in Nebraska each fall at St. John's Church on campus, a centuries-old Catholic tradition marking the opening of the judicial year.
Weekend escapes from Omaha
Weekend Escapes
Within driving distance from Omaha
Lincoln, Nebraska
About 55 minutesNebraska's state capital and home to the University of Nebraska, a straight shot down I-80 for Husker football Saturdays, the Sunken Gardens and the state capitol building.
Kansas City, Missouri
About 3 hoursBarbecue, jazz history and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, plus the nearest NFL and MLB games — the Chiefs and the Royals.
Des Moines, Iowa
About 2 hoursIowa's capital and largest city, with the East Village district and the Pappajohn Sculpture Park a straight shot east on I-80.
Getting there and game days
Getting There & Game Days
Nearest airport
Eppley Airfield (OMA)
10 minutes from campus
For international flights: Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) — about 7 hours by road, or a short connecting flight.
Pro sports nearby
- Omaha Storm Chasers MiLB (Kansas City Royals Triple-A affiliate)
- Kansas City Chiefs NFLAbout 3 hours away
- Kansas City Royals MLBAbout 3 hours away
Internships and jobs nearby
Career Proximity
Creighton's own name is on two CHI Health hospital campuses in Omaha — Bergan Mercy and the University Campus — a direct clinical pipeline for a student body where health professions are the second-largest bachelor's degree category. Business and financial-services students have an equally short commute: four Fortune 500 headquarters and several of the nation's largest architecture and engineering firms sit within the same downtown-adjacent footprint as campus.
Top Industries Nearby
Major Employers
- CHI Health
- Berkshire Hathaway
- Union Pacific
- Mutual of Omaha
- Kiewit Corporation
- First National Bank of Omaha
- Gallup
Downtown Omaha, adjoining campus
Who thrives here
Who Thrives Here
Creighton admits 92.2% of applicants and doesn't require the SAT or ACT for general admission, so it's accessible to a wide range of academic profiles — the middle 50% SAT Composite among enrolled first-years is 1280-1410. Business and health professions together account for 57% of bachelor's degrees, reflecting the Heider College of Business and Creighton's schools of pharmacy, nursing, medicine and dentistry sitting alongside the undergraduate college. About 23% of men join fraternities and 33% of women join sororities, and just over half of undergraduates (52%) live on campus, so Greek life is a real but not dominant thread in a Jesuit, service-oriented campus culture. The honest trade-off is class size: despite an undergraduate enrollment under 5,000, only 42.3% of classes run under 20 students — closer to a large public university's profile than the 60-72% typical of small private colleges. Tuition and fees run $52,902 a year, and the school meets 79% of demonstrated need on average, with students who borrow graduating owing $33,313.