by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual produces its Best Quality Schools rankings on a yearly basis to recognize those graduate schools that provide an excellent educational experience and are dedicated to helping their students succeed. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
Northern Illinois University landed the #535 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking.
For the Best Master's Degree Schools in Illinois, NIU came in at #25.
NIU was ranked #544 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Illinois, NIU came in at #26.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 58.3% of the total graduate students at NIU are women and 41.7% are men.
About 26.3% of the graduate students who attend NIU are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 12.5% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $8,942 | $8,942 |
| Fees | $2,448 | $2,448 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from NIU enter careers with an average starting salary of $58,678. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from NIU enter careers with an average starting salary of $78,035. That's about 4% higher than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Northern Illinois University.
Contact details for NIU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1425 W. Lincoln Hwy., Dekalb, IL 60115-2828 |
| Phone: | 800-892-3050 |
| Website: | www.niu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/NorthernIllUniv |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/NIUlive |
Around 58.1% of NIU graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 30.3% of grad students took all of their classes online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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More about our data sources and methodologies.
