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Nevada has 16 four-year degree-granting institutions active in the federal directory — 8 public, 3 private nonprofit, and 5 private for-profit.

The list below is every active, degree-granting institution IPEDS classifies at the four-year level. It is a directory, not a ranking. Two-year colleges, certificate-only schools, and institutions that have closed or stopped reporting are not here.

Four-year institutions

Institution City Control Notes
Arizona College of Nursing-Las Vegas Las Vegas Private for-profit
Chamberlain University-Nevada Las Vegas Private for-profit
College of Southern Nevada Las Vegas Public
DeVry University-Nevada Henderson Private for-profit
Galen Health Institutes-Las Vegas Las Vegas Private for-profit
Great Basin College Elko Public
Las Vegas College Las Vegas Private for-profit
Nevada State University Henderson Public
Nevada System of Higher Education-System Office Reno Public
Roseman University of Health Sciences Henderson Private nonprofit Medical school
Touro University Nevada Henderson Private nonprofit Medical school
Truckee Meadows Community College Reno Public
University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas Public Medical school
University of Nevada-Reno Reno Public Land-grant; Medical school
Western Nevada College Carson City Public
Wongu University of Oriental Medicine Las Vegas Private nonprofit

Public university systems

System membership as recorded in the IPEDS directory. Counts are of four-year public members in this table only, so a system that also runs two-year campuses will show more members in its own materials.

System Four-year public members here
Nevada System of Higher Education 8

Sources

  • NCES IPEDS, Institutional Characteristics directory (HD2024) — the federal directory of postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV programs. Every institution, city, control, and system value above is read directly from that file. Retrieved 2026-08-11 from nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
  • Filters applied: currently active (CYACTIVE), degree-granting (DEGGRANT), and institutional level (ICLEVEL). Flags in the Notes column are the IPEDS HBCU, TRIBAL, LANDGRNT, and MEDICAL fields.

Institution names are IPEDS legal names and sometimes differ from the name a school markets under. Check the institution's own site before relying on any detail here.

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