About the College

College is a period of discovery and clarification.

No matter what your perspective — whether you are undecided, fairly certain, or very focused — preparing you to enjoy a successful career and live a meaningful life is what Dana College is all about. Here you will be challenged to learn more about what it is you want to do and how to do it. You won’t get lost finding your way, either. You’ll experience high levels of active participation, faculty attention, and personal involvement. Leave the crowd behind and think for yourself. Come discover Dana, where futures are defined.

Through a highly supportive campus community, Dana students develop interpersonal skills, leadership abilities, and other important values and knowledge as they make choices about their future. At Dana, it's easy for any student to get involved — whatever their interests and talents.

Faculty at Dana are not just caring and dedicated teachers, but provide the guidance and wisdom students seek as they make decisions about academic choices, jobs and careers, and their own personal values and beliefs. Professors offer this support from the time students first show an interest in Dana to the time they graduate — and even beyond.

Dana's outstanding academic programs in business, education and social work, among others, ensure that students have the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to pursue challenging careers or placement in graduate school.

Students also gain valuable career and personal experience through Dana's Discovery Term, an intensive three-week program of internships, study abroad, community service, or other special projects related to their interests and goals.

To help students take charge of their future, outstanding Career Services, begin right from the time students arrive on campus. Through interview preparation, resume writing, skill development, internships, and career identification and placement students get a jump on an exciting job and career. And the College's proximity to Omaha — recently named one of America's most livable cities — gives students easy access to the professional, cultural and social opportunities this friendly Midwestern city offers.

The College's Lutheran heritage sustains a welcoming community defined by a shared sense of values, respect for others, and openness to different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds.

Collectively, these distinctions add up to a well-rounded academic and personal experience that enables students to pursue their talents and interests, and develop values and skills important to their future lives and careers.