-: Halftime the Huskers in Northwestern, and we'd like to
welcome University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor
Ronnie Green to our halftime show.
Chancellor, we seem to be racing through the year
of 2023 already in February, now.
A couple of teams that are moving fast right now
are the Husker men's and women's track and field teams.
Were you impressed that they both showed up
in the national rankings last week?
-: Oh, absolutely, Matt.
You know, we're right in the peak of winter sports season
and one of the things that people often forget about
that happens in this time of year
is our indoor track season for both men and women.
And we've been a prominent force in that arena
for a long time in Nebraska.
And this year, Husker Track and Field's
going strong in their indoor season.
The men's track and field team recently moved up four spots
in the national rankings to number six nationally
in track and field.
The last time our men in indoor track and field
were ranked that high was in 2015, so seven years ago.
So great to see that.
And our women entered the rankings at number 20 this year.
And both the men's and women's national rankings,
Nebraska leads the Big 10.
And anytime you-
obviously anytime you can be the leading institution
in the Big 10, it's impressive.
So exciting season that they have underway.
The meets they've already had have been very successful,
and great to see that success for our indoor men and women.
-: You know, speaking of rankings,
the US News and World Report comes out
with new rankings every year,
but they also rank specific online programs.
Were there any Husker programs
among the latest online academic program rankings?
-: There were, Matt.
And we were very, very proud of the fact
that we ranked quite highly in a number of programs,
both in engineering and in business.
Our engineering college,
its Master of Engineering Management program
currently ranked in the top ten in the country,
at number nine.
It's among the very best programs online in engineering.
That's an improvement of eight spots
in the rankings since the previous year.
And in the face of very fierce competition in this field,
our Master of Engineering Management program also
ranks number six overall in the country for veterans.
For access to veterans and for supporting veterans.
So very proud of that.
And then we have four of our programs
in our College of Business that finished among the top 20
in the country and the rankings in online programs.
Our MBA, Masters of Business Administration program,
which is a fully online program now since 2001,
goes back to the 1960s originally in our history
but moved fully online in 2001 after 9/11 happened.
Jumped seven spots in the rankings this year to number 19,
and they jumped three places in their ranking to number 15
for best options for veterans.
And for the first time, Nebraska business is at number 14
for the best online business master's programs as well.
That include our Master of Science in Business Analytics,
our Master of Science in Finance,
and our Master of Science in Supply Chain Management.
So very, very pleased with those rankings
both for the Masters of Engineering Management,
our online MBA program,
and our master's programs in the College of Business.
Very proud.
-: Well, this is just wonderful stuff
and as a veteran that's very interesting
to me as highly as everything ranks
in terms of best options for veterans.
Chancellor, always enjoy talking to you, thank you.
Great to see you,
and great to be here in Evanston with our women,
and go be grit!
-: That's Chancellor Ronnie Green.
I'm Matt Coatney.
Jeff Griesch joins me in a few moments.
We're at halftime in Evanston, the Huskers and the Wildcats.
This is Big Red Basketball.