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School and College Funds

School and college funds support the most pressing needs and essential components of a Creighton education across all fields and disciplines.

No ordinary education

Graduates leave Creighton committed to service and infused with a desire to seek more — both of themselves and for the places they call home. This is the Creighton experience.

It’s an experience that endures thanks to the tremendous faculty and staff across our nine schools and colleges. The professors who change our students’ lives. The mentors who helped our alumni become the people they are today.

You can help us carry forth this tradition of life-changing education by supporting Creighton’s fundraising campaign Forward Blue and making a gift to the general fund of your school or college.

Make a gift to your school or college

School and college funds support the most pressing needs and essential components of a Creighton education across all fields and disciplines — leadership development, faculty resources, research opportunities, all the services, strengths and experiences that distinguish this education from any other in the nation.

Forward Blue

Forward Blue is the largest and most comprehensive fundraising campaign in Creighton’s history. The campaign is a massive, concentrated effort over an extended period of time to celebrate Creighton’s mission, while raising funds to ensure that mission endures.

Serving our students first

We know that alumni and friends have their own personal reasons for believing Creighton is an amazing place, their own feeling or memory that connects them to campus.

One unifying thread of all Creighton experiences? Someone was there for me. In past surveys, graduating seniors and alumni said the strongest aspects of their Creighton experience were smaller class sizes, access to faculty/staff and the overall sense of community.

Our faculty and staff have the time and space to focus on teaching and serving our students first. We give our students a markedly more personalized education, through smaller class sizes — an 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio — and the programs and services that help them flourish.

Stories of Creighton mentorship

Cura personalis has always been the cornerstone of Brittany, BSHS’06, OTD’06, and Adam Stryker's, BSBA’03, approach to pediatric orthopedics

Apr 28, 2023

Brittany, BSHS’06, OTD’06, and Adam Stryker, BSBA’03, took the jesuit values learned at Creighton to heart when opening their practice, Orthopedic Motion. They have partnered with Creighton students and graduates to help carry on their mission here at their Omaha office as they run their location in Las Vegas, NV.

Law Goal Government Leadership Organization

As one of The Hill's Top Lobbyists, Michaela Sims, JD'96, loves mentoring the next generation of Creighton law students through the GOAL Program

Apr 28, 2023

Michaela Sims, JD'96, has come a long way in her 17-year-long lobbying career. In this time, she has gone from crashing on a friend's couch to running two of her own lobbying firms in Washington D.C., one of which she still manages. Sims has also been an integral part, as program director, of Creighton’s Government Organization and Leadership (GOAL) program for over a decade.

Seeking something more — the Creighton Jesuits who changed our lives

Feb 16, 2023

Here are a few stories of Creighton Jesuits who took the time and attention to care for the whole person, who offered words of consolation and spiritual direction to any student seeking something more from their university.

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The Creighton difference

Our students are the leaders of tomorrow. They're the women and men transformed by a Jesuit education made possible by your faith, generosity and commitment to Creighton.

99%

Success rate

99% of our graduates are employed, seeking an advanced degree or doing volunteer work within six months.

80%

committed to service

4 in 5 of our alumni do volunteer work.

65%

Each year, Creighton budgets 65% more for each student's support services than public institutions nationwide.

Faculty who change lives

Seeking something more — the Creighton Jesuits who changed our lives

Feb 16, 2023

Images of different mentors at Creighton.

The Creighton mentors who changed our lives

Feb 16, 2023

We’ve been regularly collecting these stories to launch a new series called My Creighton Mentor. Once a month, we’ll share stories from Creighton alumni and students about the mentors who went the extra mile.

A beloved Creighton professor's long legacy of service

Aug 02, 2022

Paul Hartnett, who recently died at the age of 94, taught at Creighton from 1966 to 2004, part of a lifelong commitment to learning and education.

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Our path forward

Creighton is a world-class academic institution recognized for excellence in teaching, learning and research, and enriched by a centuries-long tradition of Jesuit, Catholic education.

With our depth and breadth in the liberal arts, distinctiveness in the health sciences, preeminence in law and real-world innovation in business, we’re ready to advance the University’s standing and influence — locally, nationally and globally.

A dynamic vision guides our path forward. Our one-of-a-kind Creighton community will lead the way. Forward Blue.

A life-changing experience

“I can’t imagine having picked any other college. I’d be an entirely different person. This education shows you how to harness your own gifts. It shapes your path. It gives you a sense of who you are.”

— Efren Garcia, College of Arts and Sciences

World-ready

“Any college matures students to an extent. But Creighton — with its Jesuit values and amazing professors — sends you into the world fully prepared and ready to do some good.”

— Kevin Zeller, Heider College of Business