For more than 100 years, Northeastern has been driven by a simple truth: Experience deepens learning as nothing else can. Today, that truth has never been more relevant. Experience propels you beyond the confines of one discipline, campus, or the degree to a lifetime of growth, learning, and knowledge creation, anytime, anywhere.
Through co-op—our pioneering, renowned experiential program—our students put ideas into action in professional positions worldwide. They build knowledge through research, find purpose through service, and become high-impact, global citizens, the agents of change.
Northeastern is the world leader in experiential learning. Here, graduate students—from the master is through the doctorate and professional and certificate programs—put knowledge to work at Fortune 500 and startup companies, universities, government agencies, nonprofits, and global organizations.
As a tier-1 research university, Northeastern puts a premium on high-impact discovery—research that’s “use-inspired.” Students and faculty tackle challenges while working across disciplines, in fields from health and security to sustainability. And in our pioneering experiential Ph.D. programs, students learn in environments relevant to their work, such as companies, laboratories, nonprofits, universities, and global organizations.
With more than 3,100 industry employers in 136 countries, on every continent, Northeastern forges educational, experiential, and research partnerships. Our worldwide network of professionals and engaged university citizens includes more than 245,000 alumni.
In this hyper-connected world, students can choose when, where, and how they learn. Consider it a new paradigm of education and access, tailored to working professionals and lifelong learners. Northeastern offers customizable courses of study, flexible formats, and challenging work experiences that propel careers forward.
Northeastern supports you—during your studies and long after you graduate. Our graduates find employment with some of the most reputable Fortune 500 companies in the world. Or they strike out as entrepreneurs and build successful businesses of their own.
Our students work tremendously hard—and our 18 Division I athletic teams play even more challenging. Cheer on Northeastern’s men’s and women’s ice hockey as they go for the Beanpot or catch a basketball game at historic Matthews Arena. Our teams are among the most successful in New England and host some of the most significant collegiate events each year. #GoNU,
We boast more than 40 intramural and 30 club teams for students looking to get their competitive juices flowing outside of the varsity athletic scene. Sports offered include lacrosse, rugby, ultimate frisbee, and badminton, along with many, many others.
Diversity is about more than what you look like or where you come from—it is about your choices and experiences. At Northeastern, you will find people from a myriad of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And through our global experiential learning opportunities, you will have an array of choices and experiences that will make you a more diverse person.
We are all a composite of our lifetime of learning. Who we are is the result of everyone we have ever learned from—and where and how we have learned. And by now, you’ve probably realized that learning never ends, especially if you want to advance in your career and keep up with the hyper-accelerating pace of business, industry, and innovation.
The Lifelong Learning Network offers over 200-degree programs in some of today’s most popular, in-demand disciplines, including project management, computer science, education, and more. And much of the coursework and curricula have been developed in cooperation with corporate and nonprofit partner institutions.
Consider the Lifelong Learning Network as offering a revolutionary new approach to delivering bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, certificates, and boot camps across multiple learning channels—including online, on-ground, and hybrid. Now everyone can have access to these high-quality, top-tier professional programs, no matter where in the world they live and work.
Researchers at Northeastern are making path-breaking discoveries in sustainability research—from energy and climate change to sustainable urban design and policies—to promote resilient public infrastructure. The university brings together faculty with broad expertise: chemical, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering architecture and urban design chemistry, environmental science, economics, and public policy, and biology. This interdisciplinary, highly collaborative approach to research includes partnerships with business and industry, government agencies, and nonprofit environmental groups. Northeastern’s sustainability research breakthroughs will enable society to respond to environmental threats, ranging from extreme weather caused by climate change to the community-wide impacts of unsustainable urban development.
Northeastern’s strategic focus on sustainability—one of the university’s three main research pillars—prepares students to tackle the most significant global challenges of our time. With nearly 200 interdisciplinary course offerings leading to a certificate or a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree, our curriculum provides a rich, deep understanding of what is necessary to sustain our cities, oceans, and environment.
By integrating classroom study with experiential learning and co-op opportunities in 131 countries around the world, students acquire a deeper grasp of sustainability and make significant contributions to the field.
At Northeastern, research begins at the undergraduate level, where students seek solutions at university research centers and in villages, cities, jungles, and remote shorelines around the world. From programs at our Marine Science Center focusing on urban coastal sustainability, to courses on architectural design related to natural systems, to global co-ops in Costa Rica’s rainforests, Northeastern is preparing students to build tomorrow’s sustainable human communities.
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