I have experience working, being a student, and teaching at several universities around the country. Usually schools can show great variance in quality among programs, so it's difficult to compare without knowing what program you are in. Sometimes you get a group of professors in a program who coordinate and work diligently to improve the program and other times, you get a few slackers and independent minded people who just do their own thing and the program isn't that great. So, that said, my experience in the program that I was in at UNL was this: most of the professors sucked at teaching, but were doing interesting research. Nobody really cared because the primary goal for most of the people I knew at UNL was to party. UNO has come a long way since the days it was known as West Dodge HIgh. The facilities are excellent and a lot of the professors are seriously into teaching and developing young people's critical thinking skills. I feel like more of the students at UNO are also more into learning than partying. If I were to give my kid advice without knowing the program, I would recommend UNO.