This is the GPA of the 21st century.

Grade point average? No, no.

Gay point average.

A college guide published this fall offers a list of the nation’s 100 most gay-friendly universities.

“The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students” gives each school a GPA based on 20 factors, like whether it provides domestic partner benefits, how many faculty and students are out and whether the school offers a major or minor in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer studies.

Despite the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new LGBTQ minor, it didn’t make the cut.

Neither did Nebraska Wesleyan University, Doane College, Union College … or any other Nebraska school, for that matter.

Apparently, gay college students in the Cornhusker State think we have some work to do.

Midwestern campuses that do crack the top 100: Iowa State University, the University of Kansas, Michigan State University, Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

— Melissa Lee