During his four years at the university, Pershing trained the cadet corps at Nebraska so well that US inspectors considered it the second best in the country after West Point, further increasing Pershing's stature among War Department officials.

在大学四年期间，潘兴对内布拉斯加州的学员军团进行了很好的训练， 以至于美国视察员认为该军团是全国第二好的学员， 仅次于西点军校，进一步提高了潘兴在陆军部官员中的地位。