University of Nebraska at Omaha Paper Format & Writing Requirements

University of Nebraska at Omaha at a glance

Nebraska's metropolitan university — Omaha University from 1908, folded into the state system in 1968 — with the College of Information Science and Technology, the Scott Campus's Peter Kiewit Institute, and a commuter-campus culture in the state's largest city.

The campus sits in Omaha, Nebraska, operates as a public institution, and enrolls about 16,000 students — a scale that directly shapes how writing support works. Founded in 1908 with an acceptance rate around 88%, UNO pairs selective admissions with the large-course writing loads typical of its category.

Citation styles University of Nebraska at Omaha actually requires

UNO courses predominantly require APA 7 or MLA 9. That is not a trivial preference: it decides your title page, heading levels, in-text punctuation and reference format on every graded document.

• APA 7: used across social science, nursing and business courses
• MLA 9: used across humanities and writing-sequence courses

Verify against the specific course syllabus anyway — instructors can override departmental defaults, and the first paper is where they enforce it.

The writing requirement, decoded

The ENGL 1150/1160 composition pair anchors first years, IS&T majors add technical-documentation loads, and the Writing Center in the Criss Library tutors across every college.

Plan the sequence early: composition requirements compound, and students who defer them discover the advanced seminars — where the writing-intensity lives — conflict with major courses later. The registrar's degree audit shows exactly which flags remain; check it each semester.

Three things about University of Nebraska at Omaha papers that surprise new students

• Omaha University's first classes met in 1908 inside the Redick Mansion, a North Omaha estate, decades before the campus settled at its current Dodge Street home.
• The Scott Campus in the Aksarben district houses the Peter Kiewit Institute, where engineering and IS&T students share labs built with industry partners whose hiring pipelines run straight into the building.
• The Mavericks' Division I hockey program, launched in 1997, outgrew two rinks before Baxter Arena opened for it in 2015 — a rare case of a metro commuter campus carrying a big-league hockey culture.

None of these appear in the course description. All of them appear in the rubric. Students who learn them in week one report smoother first-semesters than students who meet them at the deadline.

Assignments University of Nebraska at Omaha students face most

• Research Paper — most frequently assigned across UNO's programs
• Essay — most frequently assigned across UNO's programs
• Coursework — most frequently assigned across UNO's programs
• Case Study — most frequently assigned across UNO's programs
• Literature Review — most frequently assigned across UNO's programs

Popular programs at UNO include information science and technology (is&t college), business administration, engineering (peter kiewit institute) — each pairs the assignment list above with its own capstone or practicum expectations, detailed on our subject pages.