Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University is an open establishment that was established in 1895. It has an aggregate undergrad enlistment of 15,435, its setting is rural, and the grounds size is 800 sections of land. It uses a semester-based scholastic logbook. Northern Illinois University's positioning in the 2016 version of Best Colleges is National Universities, Tier 2. Its in-state educational cost and charges are $14,426 (2015-16); out-of-state educational cost and expenses are $23,891 (2015-16).

Northern Illinois University is situated around 65 miles west of Chicago in the city of DeKalb. Graduate understudies can browse around 80 graduate degrees, including those offered by the universities of business and law and the exceptionally positioned Division of Public Administration. Students can look over around 60 scholarly majors and take an interest in the Research Rookies program, which allows first year recruits and sophomores to lead research in their field of study under staff direction. Numerous understudies at Northern Illinois University concentrate abroad, and the school offers programs for scholastic credit in around 75 nations.

On grounds, Northern Illinois understudies can join more than 200 clubs and around 40 Greek-letter associations. The college is additionally home to various varsity athletic groups, which contend in the NCAA Division I Mid-American Conference. The NIU sports groups are known as the Huskies, yet that hasn't generally been the situation. They were known as the Teachers and the Profs in the school's initial days as an instructors school, and they have been nicknamed the Cardinals and the Northerners too. Outstanding NIU graduated class incorporate Dan Castellaneta, who voices Homer Simpson and a few different characters on the energized TV program "The Simpsons."