Northeastern University Rankings and Quick Facts
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| Ranking - Times 200 (UK) | N/A |
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| University world Ranking - Jiaotong 500 (China) | 403 to 510 |
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| University world Ranking - Newsweek 100 (USA) | N/A |
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| American Rank (Jiaotong) | 165 to 197 |
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NEU Facts |
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| Students (Undergraduates / PG/ Total) | 15,340 |
5,410 |
20,750 |
| Faculty / Staff | 1,855 |
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| Established | 1898 |
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| Affiliations | URA, CAA |
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Northeastern University Information
Northeastern University, also known as NEU or NU, is a private university in Massachusetts. It was first founded in 1898 to offer young men course work and classes during the evening. It opened its doors to Boston inhabitants on the 3rd of October 1898.
After only a few years after its inception, the university expanded by offering degrees in finance, engineering and law. It moved to Huntington Avenue three years after its started holding day classes in 1909. In 1916, it gained stature as a college and changed its name to Northeastern University of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1922.
The university opened its College of Liberal Arts in 1935 and shortened its name to Northeastern University two years later. After the end of The Great Depression, the university opened its doors to female students, and due to the influx of returnees from the war, it also opened its Colleges of Education, Pharmacy, Nursing, and the University College in the years 1953, 1964 and 1960. It opened its Criminal Justice college in 1967 and its Computer Science college in 1982.
The university has over 125 programs spread throughout its 65 departments, which are segregated into Colleges. The university's different colleges include the Bouvé College of Health Sciences (which contains the schools of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Professions); the College of Arts and Sciences (which is comprised of the schools of Journalism, Architecture and Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy); College of Business Administration, (which houses the graduate school of Business Administration); College of Computer and Information Science; College of Criminal Justice; College of Engineering (where the graduate school of Engineering and the school of Engineering Technology are found); School of Law; College of Professional Studies; and the School of Technological Entrepreneurship.
Northeastern University also has several distinguished institutes under its name. Some of these are the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, Center for Urban Environmental Studies, and the National Education and Research Center for Outcomes Assessment in Healthcare.
Northeastern University Address
The North Eastern University address is 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.