The UNLincoln campus is an hour away, but the UNOmaha campus is square in the middle of the city and has developed some decent compsci, engineering, and MIS pro

The UNLincoln campus is an hour away, but the UNOmaha campus is square in the middle of the city and has developed some decent compsci, engineering, and MIS programs in the past few years. It's not yet the brain trust you'd get from a namebrand school; right now it's mostly a machine that creates new recruits for nearby businesses (Union Pacific, Con Agra, Lockheed, etc.) But I can see it becoming the sort of place that helps foster a startup community. They even have a business incubator for young tech companies (http://www.scott-technology.com/incubator.asp http://www.scott-technology.com/incubator.asp). Like you say, the situation will only get better.