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Northeastern University

May 14, 2023

This article is about the university in the United States. For other universities of the same name, see Northeastern University (disambiguation).

Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in Charlotte, North Carolina; Seattle, Washington; San Jose, California; Oakland, California; Portland, Maine; and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada. In 2019, Northeastern purchased the New College of the Humanities in London, England. The university's enrollment is approximately 20,300 undergraduate students and 13,300 graduate students.[6] It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[7] Northeastern faculty and alumni include Nobel Prize laureates,[8] Rhodes, Truman, Marshall, and Churchill scholars.[9] Undergraduate admission to the university is categorized as "most selective."[10]

Northeastern University
Former names
Evening Institute for Younger Men (1898–1916)
Northeastern College (1916–1922)
Motto
Lux, Veritas, Virtus (Latin)
Motto in English
"Light, Truth, Courage"
TypePrivate research university
Established1898; 125 years ago (1898)
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliations
Endowment$1.54 billion (June 2022)[1]
PresidentJoseph E. Aoun
ProvostDavid Madigan
Academic staff
3,049 (2020)[2]
Students27,602 (Fall 2020)[3]
Undergraduates19,004 (Fall 2020)[3]
Postgraduates8,598 (Fall 2020)[3]
Location
Boston
,
Massachusetts
,
United States

42°20′24″N 71°05′18″W / 42.34000°N 71.08833°W / 42.34000; -71.08833Coordinates: 42°20′24″N 71°05′18″W / 42.34000°N 71.08833°W / 42.34000; -71.08833
CampusLarge City, 73 acres (30 hectares)
Other campuses[4]
NewspaperThe Huntington News
ColorsRed and black[5]
   
NicknameHuskies
Sporting affiliations
MascotPaws the Husky
Websitewww.northeastern.edu

Northeastern features a cooperative education program, more commonly known as "co-op," that integrates classroom study with professional experience and includes over 3,100 partners across all seven continents.[11] The program has been a key part of Northeastern's curriculum of experiential learning for more than a hundred years and is one of the largest co-op/internship programs in the world. While not required for all academic disciplines, participation is nearly universal among undergraduate students.[12] Northeastern also has a comprehensive study abroad program that spans more than 170 universities and colleges.[13]

Northeastern is a large, highly residential university. Most undergraduate students choose to live on campus but third-years and above have the option to live off campus. Seventy-eight percent of Northeastern students receive some form of financial aid. In the 2020–21 school year, the university has committed $355 million in grant and scholarship assistance.[14] In 2019, Northeastern's six-year graduation rate was 89 percent.[15]

The university's sports teams, the Northeastern Huskies, compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in 18 varsity sports. The men's and women's hockey teams compete in Hockey East, while the men's and women's rowing teams compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) and Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges (EAWRC), respectively.[16] Men's Track and Field won the CAA back to back years in 2015 and 2016. In 2013, men's basketball won its first CAA regular season championship, men's soccer won the CAA title for the first time, and women's ice hockey won a record 16th Beanpot championship.[17] The Northeastern men's hockey team won the 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023 Beanpot, defeating Boston University, Boston College, and Harvard.[18][19][20][21]

History

Early development

 
The Huntington Avenue YMCA c. 1920, site of the Evening Institute for Younger Men.

In May 1896, directors of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, the first in the U.S., established an Evening Institute for Younger Men, to merge, coordinate and improve its classes that had evolved over the past 40 years. Included among roughly 30 courses offered were algebra, bookkeeping, literature, French, German, Latin, geography, electricity, music, penmanship and physiology. In addition, a banjo club, camera club, orchestra, and weekly parliamentary debates and discussions were promoted. A good education for "any young man of moral character" with a YMCA membership was promised. Located in a new headquarters building at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets in Boston, the institute held its first classes in 1898. After a fire, a new YMCA building was constructed on Huntington Avenue in 1913.[22]

The School of Law was also formally established in 1898 with the assistance of an advisory committee, consisting of James Barr Ames, dean of the Harvard Law School; Samuel Bennett, dean of the Boston University School of Law; and Judge James R. Dunbar. In 1903, the first Automobile Engineering School in the country was established, followed by a Polytechnic School in 1904 and a School of Commerce and Finance in 1907. Day classes began in 1909. In 1916, a bill was introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature to incorporate the institute as Northeastern College. After considerable debate and investigation, it was passed in March 1916.[23]

In 1909, the Polytechnic School began offering co-operative engineering courses to eight students. A four-year daytime program had been established consisting of alternating single weeks of classroom instruction and practical work experience with mostly railroad companies that agreed to accept student workers. In 1920, the Co-operative School of Engineering, which later became the College of Engineering, was first authorized to grant degrees in civil, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering.[22][24] The cooperative program, the second of its kind in the U.S. after one in Cincinnati, Ohio, was eventually adopted by all departments.[25]

On March 30, 1917, veteran educator Frank Palmer Speare, who had served as director of the institute, was inaugurated as the first president of the newly incorporated Northeastern College. Five years later the college changed its name to Northeastern University to better reflect the increasing depth of its instruction.[26] In March 1923, the university secured general (A.B. and B.S.) degree-granting power from the Legislature, with the exception of the medical and dental degrees.[24]

The College of Liberal Arts was added in 1935. Two years later the Northeastern University Corporation was established, with a board of trustees composed of 31 university members and 8 from the YMCA. Following World War II, Northeastern began admitting women. In 1948, Northeastern separated itself completely from the YMCA.[27] By 1959, when Carl Ell who had expanded the university stepped down as president, Northeastern had a local identity as an independent technical university serving a commuter and adult population.[28]

That reputation began changing during the presidency of Asa S. Knowles, from 1959 to 1975. Facing a postwar educational boom, the university broadened undergraduate offerings, increased graduate offerings, modernized administrative and faculty structures, created a Faculty Senate, launched its first-ever capital campaign, reorganized and expanded adult and continuing education, and increased the number of colleges. The university created the College of Education (1953), University College (1960), now called the College of Professional Studies, and the colleges of Pharmacy and Nursing (1964), which both later merged into the Bouvé College of Health Sciences.[29] The creation of the College of Criminal Justice (1967) followed, and then the Khoury College of Computer Sciences (1982), the first college in the United States dedicated to the field of computer science.[30][31]

The period between 1959 and 1975, is also often described generally as "The Age of Student Unrest" or "The Student Revolution," when campuses across the United States were rocked with dissension against institutional discrimination and the Vietnam War. Northeastern's student population not only grew considerably larger, but also more diverse during this time. At the beginning of this period, most of the student body was composed of white males from New England, the majority of whom came from the Boston-area public schools and primarily studied business or engineering. By 1974–75, women accounted for 33 percent of the nearly 14,000 undergraduates students, while 5 percent were black. Moreover, over 900 students came from different foreign countries. Of the graduating class of 2,238, 513 were in Liberal Arts, 462 in Engineering, 389 in Business, 227 in Pharmacy and Allied Health, and the remainder were roughly divided among Education, Boston-Bouvé, Nursing and Criminal Justice.[32]

To attract more women, the university refurbished existing facilities, constructed new women's dormitories and encouraged their participation in all programs. The merger with Boston-Bouvé, a women's college dedicated to physical health, and the creation of the College of Nursing, traditionally a female profession, also contributed to the increase. Though there was an explicit nondiscrimination policy on the books, throughout its history Northeastern had only a handful of black students. In the early 1960s, with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation in New York in the form of scholarships and co-ops to black high school students, Northeastern began actively recruiting black students. By 1975, black student-led organizations included the Afro-photo Society, Student Grill, Health Careers Club, The Onyx (a black student newspaper), Muhindi Literary Guild, the Outing Club, Black Engineering Society, and the first recognized black fraternity at the university, the Omicron Chapter of Iota Phi Theta. In addition, the number of foreign students increased from 170 in the 1950s and 1960s to 960 by 1974–75.[32]

Recent history

 
Northeastern's historic Ell Hall on Huntington Avenue.

By the early 1980s, under President Kenneth G. Ryder, the one-time night commuter school had grown into one of the largest private universities in the nation at around 50,000 students. In 1990, the first class with more live-on campus rather than commuter students was graduated. After Ryder's retirement in 1989, the university adopted a slow and more thoughtful approach to change.[33] Following an economic downturn, a 1991 trustee committee report described the situation as "life threatening to Northeastern," warning of a $17 million budget gap with no funding mechanisms to cover it.[33] That year President John A. Curry formulated a new strategy of transforming Northeastern into a "smaller, leaner, better place to work and study," describing unacceptable compromises in the quality and reputation of the university that had been made in the quest for more students. Staff were terminated and admissions targets were reduced, with applicant numbers beginning to rise by the end of Curry's tenure.[33]

 
Robert J. Shillman Hall, constructed in 1995.

When Curry left office in 1996, the university population had been systematically reduced to about 25,000. Incoming President Richard M. Freeland decided to focus on recruiting the type of students who were already graduating as the school's prime demographic.[33] Freeland focused on improving academics and restructuring the administration with a goal of "creating the country's premier program of practice oriented education".[33] In the early 1990s, the university began a $485 million construction program that included residence halls, academic and research facilities, and athletic centers. During the university's transition, Freeland reorganized the co-operative education system, decentralizing it into a department based system to allow better integration of classroom learning with workplace experience.[33] Full-time degree programs shifted from a four-quarter system to two traditional semesters and two summer "minimesters," allowing students to both delve more deeply into their academic courses and have longer and more substantive co-op placements, forcing departments to redesign aging programs to fit the longer format.[33] Freeland also created a marketing department, uncommon for universities at the time, and expanded the university advancement office, while setting an ambitious $200 million fundraising target with the goal of reducing dependency on tuition.[33]

Between 1995 and 2007, average SAT exam scores increased more than 200 points, retention rates rose dramatically, and applications doubled.[34] In 1998, Freeland set an admissions target of 2,800 freshman per year, allowing for adequate tuition income without compromising on education.[33] Throughout the transformation, his oft-repeated goal was to crack the top 100 of the U.S. News & World Report's rankings of America's best universities.[35] With this accomplished by 2005, the transformation goal from commuting school to nationally recognized research university was complete. Freeland stepped down on August 15, 2006, and was followed by President Joseph E. Aoun, a former dean at the University of Southern California.[36]

As part of a five-year, $75 million Academic Investment Plan that ran from 2004 to 2009, the university concentrated on undergraduate education, core graduate professional programs, and centers of research excellence. Faculty was originally to be bolstered by 100 new tenured and tenure-track professors, later expanded to include 300 additional tenure and tenure-track faculty in interdisciplinary fields. Aoun also placed more emphasis on improving community relations by reaching out to leaders of the neighborhoods surrounding the university.[37] In addition, Aoun created more academic partnerships with other institutions in the Boston area, including Tufts University, Hebrew College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.[38]

During this period, Northeastern rapidly advanced in national rankings. It placed 42nd in the 2014–15 edition of U.S. News & World Report's best colleges and universities rankings, a 7 position jump from 2013–14 and a 27 place gain since 2010–11.[39] Critics have argued that Northeastern's rise in the rankings shows that the university has "cracked the code" to academic rankings, while others suggested it figured out how to "game the system."[40][41] The 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked Northeastern 49th in its annual ranking of national universities.[39] Whether or not the rise was an effort to reverse-engineer the controversial rankings formula, critics would likely agree that the positive feedback effect of its placement, in turn, allowed the institution to significantly increase its endowment, admit a more-competitive student body, hire new faculty, add to its campuses and expand its flagship co-op program.[42]

The Empower Campaign was launched in May 2013 for student support, faculty advancement/expansion, innovation in education and research. Its goal was to raise $1 billion by 2017, with half of that being from philanthropic support and the other half from industry and government partnerships. The goal was raised to $1.25 billion in 2015. The campaign was inspired by Richard D'Amore and Alan McKim's $60 million donation to the university's business school in 2012.[43] In October 2017, Northeastern revealed that the final total of the Empower campaign was $1.4 billion. More than 100,000 individuals and over 3,800 organizations donated to Empower, from 110 countries.[44]

Presidents

Presidents of Northeastern University:

Undergraduate admissions

Fall enrollment statistics, freshmen
2022[45][46] 2021[47] 2020[48] 2019[49] 2018[50]
Applicants 91,086 75,244 64,459 62,263 62,272
Admits 6,179 13,829 13,199 11,240 12,042
Admit rate 6.7% 18% 20% 18% 19%
Enrolled 2,620 4,504 3,128 2,996 2,746
SAT range 1440–1530 1430–1540 1390–1540 1360–1540
ACT range 33–35 33–35 32–35 33–35

For undergraduate students, Northeastern's 2022 acceptance rate was 6.7%. Of the record-large pool of 90,989 applicants, only 6,179 were admitted. 2020 acceptance rate was 18.1%. For the Class of 2024, Northeastern received 64,459 applications, with 13,199 students accepted. In 2018, the record number of applications led to a drop in acceptance rate, eight percentage points lower than the previous year. Additionally, Northeastern was one of the top ten most applied to colleges in 2018.[46]

For the Class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), Northeastern received 62,272 applications, accepted 12,042 (19%), and enrolled 2,746.[50] For the freshmen who enrolled, the middle 50% range of SAT scores was 670–750 for reading and writing, 690–790 for math, while the middle 50% range ACT composite range was 32–34.[50]

Of those who applied in 2016, 9,500 were international students, up from 1,128 international applicants in 2006.[51] Of those who enrolled, 20% were international students. In the Power of International Education's 2017 Open Doors report, Northeastern was ranked as the fourth-highest institution in the United States to host international students.[52][53][51]

When it comes to both undergraduate and graduate students, the number of international students totals over 12,000 representing 138 different nations and over half of the student body. The number of international students at Northeastern has steadily increased by about 1,000 students every year since 2008.[54]

Rankings

In the 2023 edition of U.S. News & World Report rankings, Northeastern was tied for 44th in the National Universities category.[63]

Specialty rankings

  • 1st in "Best Co-ops/Internships" (U.S. News & World Report) (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)[63]
  • 1st in "Best Schools for Internships" (Princeton Review) (2017, 2018)[64]
  • 1st in "Best Internships/Career Services" (Princeton Review) (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)[citation needed]
  • 2nd in "Best Graduate Psychology Programs" (2018)[65]
  • 2nd in "Best Physician Assistant Programs" (2018)[65]
  • 3rd in "Best Nursing-Anesthesia Programs" (2018)[65]
  • 3rd in "Best Career Services" (Princeton Review) (2016, 2017, 2018)[66]
  • 4th in "Top 25 Entrepreneurship: Ugrad" (Princeton Review) (2017, 2018) [67]
  • 4th in "Best Health Care Law Programs" (2018)[65]
  • 6th in "Most Innovative Schools" (U.S. News & World Report) (2018) (up from 7th in 2017)[68]
  • 7th in "The Top 25 B.A. Theatre Programs for 2018–19" (OnStage Blog)[69]
  • 9th in "Best Undergraduate International Business Programs" (U.S. News & World Report) (2018)[70]

Academics

Northeastern offers undergraduate majors in 65 departments. At the graduate level, there are about 125 programs. A Northeastern education is interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial. Founded in 2009, IDEA is Northeastern University's student-led Venture Accelerator, which provides entrepreneurs, including students, faculty, and alumni in the Northeastern community with the necessary support and educational experience towards developing a business from core concept to launch. Academics at Northeastern is grounded in a liberal arts education and the integration of classroom studies with experiential learning opportunities, including cooperative education, student research, service learning, and global experience, including study abroad and international co-op.

The university's cooperative education program places about 10,000 students annually in full-time, paid professional positions with more than 3,000 co-op employers in Boston and around the world.[71][72] In 2014, College Prowler gave Northeastern an "A+" rating for the quality of classes, professors, and overall academic environment.[73] Northeastern University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.[74]

Colleges and schools

Colleges listed including schools and degrees offered:[75]

Honors Program

The University Honors Program offers selected students an enhanced curriculum. These students are selected from the regular applicant pool with no separate application and represent the applicants with the highest GPA and SAT/ACT scores that year. The culminating experience is advanced specialty work in a major field through college-specific choices including specialized advanced honors seminars and an independent research project.[77] In addition, students in the Honors Program exclusively can live in a Living-Learning Community housed in West Villages C[78] and F. In Fall 2009, the university began housing first-year Honors students in the lower nine floors of the newly constructed International Village residence hall. Starting in Fall 2017, these students are housed in the lower floors of the even newer 17 story East Village residence hall. 2017 also marked the beginning of the Honors Discovery course and the introduction of the Student Assessed Integrated Learning (SAIL) app.[79]

Co-op/internship program

Launched in 1909, Northeastern has one of the largest and oldest cooperative education (co-op) programs in the world.[80] In the co-op program, students alternate periods of academic study with periods of professional employment (usually paid) related to their major. Students can choose to complete one or two co-op experiences to graduate in four years, or they can choose to complete three co-ops to graduate in five years. Students on co-op do not pay tuition and students not living on campus do not pay room and board. The co-op program typically begins the spring of the second year or fall of the third year (after a more traditional program for the first semesters on campus). Students usually take anywhere between one and three with 96% participating in one and 78% participating in two or more.[81]

Co-op placements range from small start-up companies to large multinational companies, including many Fortune 500 corporations. The program also places students with government agencies, branches of government, nonprofits, and non-governmental organizations. Northeastern students can be found interning in the United States Congress, the White House, United Nations, and at NASA. Student placements usually last six months and most of the time, students are paid. Students may live in the university residence halls on campus during co-op employment, and the university currently leases housing for students co-oping in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. and assists elsewhere.[82]

Northeastern co-op students staying in Boston usually benefit from the fact that the city's most prominent industries have numerous offices/headquarters there. Boston's most consequential industries such as its financial sector, technology sector, and medicine/life sciences sector tend to hire many co-ops in these fields especially to big-name companies. When it comes to D'amore-Mckim Business students, many co-ops end up working for large financial firms such as State Street and John Hancock Financial. Accounting firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Deloitte & Touche as well as consulting firms such as Boston Consulting Group tend to hire many co-ops every cycle as well. Retail companies like TJX Companies and Staples tend to hire several marketing students every cycle.[83]

Some students also decide to develop their own co-ops if they wish to do something that is not offered. This usually involves starting a new company or reaching out to a company Northeastern does not have a partnership with and facilitating the creation of a co-op partnership. Many companies continually pass down their co-op opportunities to Northeastern students so these new partnerships are documented in Northeastern's co-op database, known as NUCareers, to be given to future Northeastern students. Students that decide to start their own companies are usually involved with IDEA, Northeastern's Venture Accelerator, and will sometimes spend their entire two or three co-ops solely developing their companies. They might also join the Husky Startup Challenge which also helps develop student-run companies. If a company is successful in either IDEA, the Husky Startup Challenge or both, they often to move onto MassChallenge in Boston which is a huge global non-profit startup accelerator and competition.[84]

All Northeastern students take at least one class which prepares them for their co-op and the expectations of a given industry. Some schools, such as D'Amore-McKim, have students take three different one-credit classes to prepare them for their co-op. During these classes, students work with advisers inside and outside of class to pursue potential co-ops as well as work on strategies to make themselves more competitive against other candidates.[85]

The co-op program has led to the university's high reputation when it comes to job placement. 50% of Northeastern students receive a job offer from a previous co-op employer as of 2017.[11] 92% were either employed or enrolled in graduate school 9 months after graduation.[86] This has also led Northeastern to consistently rank within the top 5 in the Princeton Review's list for "Best Career Services/Internships" within the last decade, mainly taking the top spot. The list split into "Best Career Services" and "Best Internships" in 2016 and Northeastern currently[when?] ranks 3rd for career services and 5th for internships in the United States.[87][64]

Study abroad

Northeastern has semester-long study abroad programs with placements in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. Some participating schools include: University of Cambridge and London School of Economics, England; University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Reims Management School, France; European School of Business, Germany; University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of Auckland, New Zealand; Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Obirin University, Japan; American College of Thessaloniki, Greece and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile and also Antarctica.[88]

Northeastern's International Business program is a member of the International Partnership of Business Schools. Through this program International Business students have the opportunity to be awarded a dual-degree from Northeastern as well as from a sister school abroad.[89]

Since the arrival of President Aoun in 2006, the school has also been emphasizing co-op abroad, in an effort to make the school more global and internationally engaged. There are many programs being offered including social entrepreneurship in the Peru, Kenya, and South Africa.[90]

Dialogues of Civilizations

Northeastern also has the notable Dialogues of Civilizations program, which features dozens of one-month-long programs (usually taking place in the summer) where a faculty member will teach a group of students in a region related to the curriculum of a specific class. A sort of "mini" study abroad, each program has an area of focus – for example, the Geneva program focuses on small arms and multilateral negotiations, while the South Africa program is based in non-governmental organizations, and the Seattle program focuses on design thinking. This program is meant to be a communicative experience and an exchange of ideas and cultures. It is open to all majors and all years, and is the most popular external study option at Northeastern.[91]

The program is used by some Northeastern students to gain extra credits for a minor or concentration and can also be used by students trying to graduate in 4 years while also participating in one or more co-ops. The program will sometimes take place in multiple locations. Entrepreneurship and Global Consulting in Israel is a dialogue that starts in Boston and eventually has students go to Tel-Aviv and Beer Sheva, Israel.[92] Some dialogues span multiple countries with one being taught in Marrakesh, Morocco, then in Amsterdam and concluding in Paris.[93]

N.U.in

Northeastern also offers a program called "N.U.in" which has first-year students start their first semester studying abroad. This program accepts students into the university but has them spend their first semester studying at a foreign university partnered with Northeastern. Students take classes and these credits transfer over to Northeastern when they arrive on campus in the spring. The program began in 2007 with the creation of N.U.in Australia and only had the option for students to go abroad during their fall semester. An option for freshman to go abroad in their spring was later added called "N.U.in Spring" and later renamed "Global Quest". By 2012, 500 students enrolled in the N.U.in program which at the time offered the destinations of London, Dublin, Thessaloniki (Greece), Sydney, and San José (Costa Rica). By 2017 that number grew to 1,100 students and the program had expanded to Shanghai, Rome, Berlin, Montreal, Melbourne, and removed San José as an N.U.in destination.[94]

Research

Research Centers and Institutes at Northeastern include:[95]

The university provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to engage in research through the Center for Experiential Education,[97] CenSSIS Research Experience for Undergraduates,[98] Honors Research, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program,[99] and Provost's Office research grants.[100] In FY 2007, annual external research funding exceeded $78 million.[101] In FY 2009–10, the research funding is close to $82 million.[102] In 2002, Northeastern's Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems was designated an NSF Engineering Research Center. In 2004, Northeastern was one of six institutions selected by the National Science Foundation as a center for research in nanotechnology. In 2010, Northeastern was granted $12 million by an alum for a Homeland security research facility,[103] to be named the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, after its chief benefactor.[103]

Faculty

See also: List of Northeastern University faculty

Northeastern had 1,352 full-time faculty, 95% of whom possess a doctorate or the terminal degree in their field, and 479 part-time faculty in Fall 2018.[2] Northeastern faculty members direct more than 35 research and education centers, including a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center, an NSF Nanomanufacturing Center, and two NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship programs.[citation needed]

Campus

Northeastern University's main campus is located on 73 acres (30 ha) mostly along Huntington Avenue and Columbus Avenue in an area known as the Fenway Cultural District, part of Boston's Fenway and Roxbury neighborhood, near the Museum of Fine Arts, Symphony Hall, New England Conservatory, and Christian Science Center.

Despite its location in central Boston, Northeastern is home to a significant amount of green open space and quads.[104] Since the late 1990s, Northeastern has been considered a model of design for urban universities and has twice won the American Institute of Architects's "Most Beautiful New or Renovated Exterior Space" award in 2001 and 2004.[105] In 2019, the campus was officially designated as an arboretum by ArbNet, making it the only campus in Boston to receive the designation.[106][107]

The first baseball World Series took place on the Huntington Avenue Grounds, now part of the campus. The site is commemorated in front of Churchill Hall by a statue of Cy Young.[108]

In 2014, Northeastern officially launched a Public Art Initiative to place a series of colorful murals and other art around the Boston campus. Among those whose work has been commissioned are French artist Jef Aérosol, Houston-born artist Daniel Anguilu, Los Angeles-based El Mac and Charleston, South Carolina-born artist Shepard Fairey, known for his 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster.[109]

Campus development

 
Completed in 2002, the Behrakis Health Sciences Center houses the Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, as enrollment grew to over 4,600 students, President Frank Palmer Speare announced that Northeastern would build a new campus.[110] Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott, a Boston-based architectural firm, was selected to design the campus near the Huntington Avenue YMCA building that continued to house library and classroom spaces. Richards Hall, which housed classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices, was the first building completed in October 1938. Its light gray, glazed brick exterior with vertical strips of windows was replicated in other buildings of what later became known as the 1944 master plan. A mix of Beaux-Arts and Bauhaus architectural styles defined by stripped-down classicism and open courtyards that resembled that of Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the Charles River. In a June 14, 1934 article, the Boston Evening Transcript described the campus design as "modernistic classical."[110] President Carl Ell completed the remaining buildings of the master plan, including construction of the Cabot Physical Education Center, Churchill Hall and Hayden Hall.

In 1961, under President Asa Knowles, the university purchased a 7-acre red brick industrial complex once owned by the United Drug Company to build to athletic facilities. Three of the buildings facing Forsyth Street were demolished, but due to a need for more office and lab space, the remaining buildings were divided into four sections now called Lake Hall, Holmes Hall, Nightingale Hall and Meserve Hall.[111] The historic structure, built in 1911, would influence new campus buildings away from the original gray-brick campus, as exemplified by the extension of the law school's Cargill Hall in the early 1980s. Over past few decades, Northeastern's academic and residential buildings have expanded considerably. Through landscape improvements, the university transformed a commuter school campus, once dominated by asphalt, to a greener environment. For example, the Behrakis Health Sciences Center, named for 1957 pharmaceutical alumnus George Behrakis, is a 240,000 square feet (22,000 m2) mixed-use project that included a residence hall and parking garage containing a garden roof, integrates smoothly into the campus. Centennial Path was added in 1996 and connects the gray- and red-brick sections of campus with trees, flowers, shrubbery and gently curving brick and asphalt surfaces.

During the last few years, major developments include Northeastern becoming recognized as an arboretum, opening a $225 million research and laboratory complex known as the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex (ISEC), launching the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence with a $50 million donation, as well as renaming the College of Computer and Information Science to the Khoury College of Computer Sciences with another $50 million donation from Amin Khoury.[106][112][113][114]

Upcoming projects include plans to build EXP, another research facility created to support Northeastern's work in autonomous vehicles, drones, and humanoid robots. This building will be approximately 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) larger than ISEC and is expected to be completed by 2023.[115]

Sustainability

 
Northeastern University campus in the spring.

The 2011 Sustainable Endowments Institute's College Sustainability Report Card issued Northeastern a grade of "A−" for its environmental sustainability efforts and programs.[116] Additionally, the Princeton Review rated Northeastern as one of the top 15 "Green Colleges" in the nation in 2010.[117] In 2011, the GreenMetric World University ranking evaluated Northeastern as the second greenest university in the world, and first in the US.[118] Northeastern placed first in the rankings again in 2014.[119]

In accordance with a Boston zoning code amendment in 2007,[120] International Village residence hall was certified as a LEED Gold building in 2010.[121] Dockser Hall was the first building on campus to achieve LEED certification, also Gold, with the completion of its renovation in 2010.[122] East Village was rated LEED Silver in 2016 and the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex was rated LEED Gold in 2018.[123][124] The university affiliated LightView apartment building is targeting a LEED Platinum certification, the first in student housing in the City of Boston.[125]

In 2004, Northeastern was awarded the prestigious gold medal by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for its Dedham Campus.[126]

Public safety

 
A pedestrian bridge, spanning five MBTA and Amtrak rail lines, connects the Huntington Avenue and Columbus Avenue sides of the Boston campus.

The Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) is a full-service law enforcement agency with full powers of arrest on university property or property used by Northeastern students and faculty. In 2019 NUPD received Advanced Accreditation with Excellence from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), one of six agencies in Massachusetts to receive CALEA accreditation.[127][128] The campus is adjacent to the Boston Police Department's headquarters. A 2008 Reader's Digest survey ranked NU as the second safest school in the United States after Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.[129]

Public transportation

Northeastern is bracketed by the MBTA's Orange Line and Green Line E branch. Five stations serve the campus: Massachusetts Avenue and Ruggles on the Orange Line; and Symphony, Northeastern, and Museum of Fine Arts on the Green Line. The Green Line is paralleled by the #39 bus. Ruggles also serves the Needham, Providence/Stoughton, and Franklin Lines of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, and 14 local bus routes.[130]

Landmarks

Krentzman Quadrangle

Facing Huntington Avenue, Krentzman Quadrangle is the main quadrangle on the campus of Northeastern. It is recognizable by the "Northeastern University" brick sign in front. The quad lies at the heart of the original campus between Ell, Dodge and Richards halls, and serves as a gathering space for community members and outdoor activities. It was named after Harvey Krentzman, a businessman and 1949 alumnus.[131]

Ell Hall

 
View of Ell Hall, constructed in 1947.

Ell Hall, completed in 1947, is one of the oldest buildings on campus and is centered on Krentzman Quadrangle. It contains administrative offices, classrooms, art display space, a 992-seat auditorium and the Northeastern Bookstore. Like Dodge Hall, Ell Hall has five floors and also connects to the tunnel network. The tunnels interconnect the major administrative and traditional academic buildings for use in inclement weather.[132]

Blackman Auditorium, Northeastern's largest event space, hosts many different types of events for classes, theater groups, dance teams, musical groups, choral groups, fraternities, sororities, and orchestral ensembles. Blackman has hosted many talented individuals from Maya Angelou to Seth Meyers.[133]

Gallery 360 is Northeastern University's art gallery, which is free and open to the public throughout the year. The 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) space houses temporary exhibits of artworks by visiting artists, students, faculty, and the surrounding community. Some larger exhibits also include the adjacent hallways for additional space. Curation and administration is under the supervision of the College of Arts Media and Design (CAMD).[134]

Ell Hall was named for Carl Ell, president of Northeastern from 1940 to 1959, who is credited with expanding the campus and making cooperative education an integral part of the university-wide curriculum.[110]

Dodge Hall

Dodge Hall sits on Krentzman Quadrangle and primarily serves as the home of Northeastern's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. The building was completed in 1952 and named for Robert Gray Dodge, a former chairman of Northeastern's board of trustees. It has five floors.[135] Classrooms and a lounge area occupy the first floor. The business school's undergraduate office is on the second floor and the graduate office is on the third floor. The School of Professional Accounting office is on the fourth floor. The basement houses a computer lab and is connected to the university's large network of tunnels.

From 1953 until Snell Library opened in 1990, Dodge Hall's basement served as the university's main library.[136][137] Directly behind Dodge Hall is the Boston YMCA, where Northeastern was founded in 1898.

Richards Hall

Originally known as West Building, Richards Hall borders Krentzman Quadrangle and was the first building constructed on campus in October 1938. Its light gray brick and vertical window strips design was the work of alumnus Herman Voss and was replicated in other surrounding buildings.[110] It is an administrative building with some academic space.

Richards Hall was named for Boston industrialist James Lorin Richards, a former board trustee.[22]

 
Centennial Common

Centennial Common

Centennial Common is a lawn created to mark the 100th anniversary of Northeastern University in 1998. The grassy area borders Shillman Hall, Ryder Hall, Meserve Hall, Leon Street, Forsyth Street and Ruggles Station, and serves as a gateway to the West Campus. The area is a popular gathering spot frequently used by students for recreational purposes and outdoor activities by student organizations.[138]

Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex

 
Interior of the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex (ISEC).
Main article: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex

On February 21, 2014, Northeastern had its groundbreaking ceremony for the new Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex (ISEC) on Columbus Avenue.[139] Completed in 2017, the 220,000-square-foot (20,000 m2) building provides research and educational space for students and faculty from the College of Science, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, College of Engineering, and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. The centerpiece of the complex includes a large atrium, a spiral staircase, and a 280-seat auditorium.[140]

Matthews Arena

Main article: Matthews Arena
 
Matthews Arena, home to Northeastern's hockey and basketball teams.

Opened in 1910 and originally known as the Boston Arena, Matthews Arena is the world's oldest surviving indoor ice hockey arena.[141] Located on the eastern edge of Northeastern University's campus, it is home to the Northeastern Huskies men's and women's hockey teams, and men's basketball team as well as the Wentworth Institute of Technology's men's hockey team. The arena is named after former university Board of Trustees Chairman George J. Matthews, a 1956 graduate, and his wife, the late Hope M. Matthews, who helped fund a major renovation in 1982.[142] The arena is the original home of the NHL Boston Bruins and the WHA New England Whalers (now the NHL Carolina Hurricanes). It was also the secondary home to the NBA Boston Celtics in the 1940s. It has hosted all or part of the America East Conference men's basketball tournament a total of seven times and hosted the 1960 Frozen Four. The arena also served as the original home to the annual Beanpot tournament between Boston's four major college hockey programs.[143]

Marino Recreation Center

 
Marino Recreation Center, completed in 1996.

The Marino Recreation Center, named after 1961 alumnus Roger Marino, co-founder of EMC Corporation, is an indoor fitness center that opened in the Fall of 1996.[144]

Residential Halls

Residential halls at Northeastern vary quite significantly from low-rise former Boston apartment buildings to purpose built high-rise dormitories. Residential halls vary in size from as few as 50 students to as many as 1,000 per building.

Traditional Accommodations     

  • Hastings Hall
  • Kerr Hall
  • Light Hall
  • Melvin Hall
  • Smith Hall
  • Speare Hall
  • Stetson East
  • Stetson West
  • White Hall

Suite-Style Accommodations

  • 153 Hemenway Street
  • Kennedy Hall
  • International Village
  • East Village

Apartment-Style Accommodations

  • Davenport Commons (A & B)
  • West Villages (A, B, C, E, F, G, H)
  • 10 Coventry
  • 780 Columbus Ave
  • 106, 110, 116, 122 St Stephen St
  • 319, 337 & 407 Huntington Ave
  • Burstein Hall
  • Loftman Hall
  • Rubenstein Hall
  • Willis Hall
  • 144 Hemenway St
  • Lightview

First-year students are usually divided into groups called Living Learning Communities (LLCs) which place students with certain majors, interests or hobbies together. LLCs host events related to specific areas of interest for members of that LLC to participate in. LLCs can span sections of floors in a residential hall, entire floors, multiple floors or entire buildings.

East Village

East Village is Northeastern's newest dorm building and only houses freshmen and upperclassmen who are in the University Honors Program.[145] The building is located at 291 St. Botolph Street and opened in January 2015.[146][147] Honors freshman live in its suite-style rooms whereas upperclassmen can choose full apartments with kitchen facilities. The building also contains 5 classrooms in the basement and an event space on the 17th Floor.[148]

West Village
 
West Village A North residence hall
 
West Village quadrangle in autumn

The West Village complex includes eight buildings serving mainly as residence halls and classrooms.

  • Building A (opened 1999): Residence Hall (two sections, West Village A North and South).
  • Building B (opened 2001): Residence Hall.
  • Building C (opened 2001): Residence Hall (several floors for upperclassmen honors students) and one classroom.
  • Building D – Behrakis Health Science Center (opened 2002): classrooms and laboratories
  • Building E (opened 2002): Residence Hall.
  • Building G (opened 2004): Residence Hall and several classrooms.
  • Building H (opened 2004): Residence Hall. Open to students who are over the age of 21. Single rooms only. It's the new home of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences (several classrooms, offices and computer labs). Building H was originally reserved for honors student, but that rule was dropped.
  • Building F (opened 2006): Residence Hall for upper-class students, classrooms, John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute, Admissions Visitors Center.

In 2008, West Village Building F was recognized in American Institute of Architects New England 2008 Merit Awards for Design Excellence.[149]

 
Lightview under construction in 2019

South Campus (Columbus Avenue)

Northeastern's southernmost section of campus is located along Columbus Avenue in Roxbury, parallel to the Orange line. The university expanded south into Roxbury at the same time as they were building West Village. In 2001, Davenport Commons was opened, providing 585 students housing in two residence halls while 75 families representing a range of incomes have been able to purchase a condo or townhouse at or below Boston's market value. Davenport Commons also created commercial space on Tremont Street.[150]

During the summer of 2006, Northeastern proposed a new residence hall further away from the main campus, at the corner of Tremont Street and Ruggles Street. Construction began in late February 2007. In the Spring of 2009, the complex was named International Village and opened later that Summer. It consists of three interconnected residential towers, an office tower, administration building, and a gym.[151] A 400-seat dining hall is available to all members of the Northeastern community as well as the public.[152]

Lightview was launched in 2019, which was Boston's first developer-led, equity-financed student housing project built and financed by American Campus Communities exclusively for Northeastern students. The building is 20 stories tall and includes a fitness area as well as social and recreational spaces.[153]

The following buildings make up the South Campus:

Library facilities

Northeastern University Libraries include the Snell Library and the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute Library. The NU School of Law Library is separately administered by the NU School of Law.[154]

The Snell Library opened in 1990 at a cost of $35 million, and contains 1.3 million volumes.[136] The main library is open 24 hours a day, allowing students to research or study at any time they wish.[155] The Digital Media Design Studio within the library is a collaborative and interdisciplinary learning environment for creating course-related multimedia presentations, projects, and portfolios.

The library is home to the Favat Collection, a current collection of children's literature and K-12 curriculum resources, instructional materials, and related information to support courses offered by the School of Education. It contains three computer labs operated by NU Information Services. Two are available to all NU students, faculty, and staff; the other is a teaching lab.

The Snell Library is also home to the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections department, which includes the Benjamin LaGuer papers collection. The Special Collections focus on records of Boston-area community-based organizations that are concerned with social justice issues.[156]

The NU Libraries received federal depository designation in 1963.[136] As a selective depository, the Libraries receive 45% of the federal publication series available to depository libraries.

In June 2016, the library staff adopted an open-access policy to make its members' professional research publicly accessible online.[157]

Dining Facilities

 
Inside the International Village Dining Hall at Northeastern University

Northeastern features two dining halls with buffet-style offerings. These include the Levine Marketplace at Stetson East and International Village Dining at the International village residence hall on the southern portion of campus. Both halls allow students to gain access either by cashing in a meal pass stored on their Husky Card or purchasing access at the door using a credit card. Once inside, students are able to eat as much food as they please before leaving.[158]

Spiritual Life Center and Sacred Space

Within the urban environment that characterizes the campus as a whole, NU has carved out a quiet, peaceful space in the centrally located Ell Building for the Spiritual Life Center's Sacred Space. The nondenominational Sacred Space, the center's main assembly hall, can be configured with carpets, mats or chairs. It has a distinctive ceiling consisting of 3 hanging domes made of overlapping aluminum tiles with an origami-like effect, warm wood floors and accents, and glass-paneled walls that lean outward slightly, their shape and material giving a sense of openness and volume to the space. Faucets for ablution are available in a flanking antechamber, and the center also contains a smaller meeting space and library.[159] The Sacred Space opened in 1998. The architects Office dA (Nader Tehrani & Monica Ponce de Leon) received the 2002 Harleston Parker Medal from the Boston Society of Architects for the design.[160]

Network campuses

 
Photo of Northeastern University satellite campus in Seattle, Washington

In addition to Northeastern's main Boston campus, the university operates a number of satellite locations in Massachusetts, including the George J. Kostas Research Institute in Burlington, a Financial District campus in the Hilton Hotel near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston, a Dedham Campus in Dedham, and a Marine Science Center in Nahant.[161] The Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, which opened in 2011, contains the Laboratory for Structural Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Systems (STReSS Laboratory). The laboratory is "equipped to test full-scale and large-scale structural systems and materials to failure so as to explore the development of new strategies for designing, simulating, and sensing structural and infrastructure systems".[162]

The university has also launched a number of full-service remote network campuses in North America, including in Charlotte, North Carolina, in October 2011, Seattle, in January 2013, San Jose, California, in March 2015, Toronto, in 2016 and Vancouver, British Columbia in 2019. In January 2020, Northeastern announced that it was opening the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, a new research institute focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning in digital and life sciences.[163] The decision came after Northeastern was selected for a $100 million donation by David Roux, in hopes of turning the city into a new tech hub and in an attempt to spark economic growth in the region.[164]

More recently, the university has continued to focus on global expansion. In late 2018, Northeastern announced the acquisition of the New College of the Humanities, a small private London-based college founded by the philosopher A. C. Grayling. The move was seen as unorthodox as most U.S. colleges have typically chosen to build new campus branches abroad, rather than purchasing existing ones.[165][166]

In June 2021, Northeastern and Mills College in Oakland, California, announced plans for a merger.[167][168] Under the plans, the liberal arts college, which had financial troubles, was renamed Mills College at Northeastern University when the merger became effective on July 1, 2022.[169]

Student organizations

Northeastern University offers students the opportunity to join various ethnic, cultural and political organizations, along with numerous honor societies, special interest groups, fraternities, and sororities. Northeastern has more than 16 varsity teams competing in the NCAA, over 30 club sports teams and over 400 student clubs and organizations. Among the student-run organizations are: Resident Student Association (RSA), Student Government Association (SGA), The Huntington News, Northeastern University Television (NUTV), Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL), Social Justice Resource Center (SJRC), and the Council for University Programs (CUP) organize activities for Northeastern students as well as the surrounding community.[170]

Northeastern hosts six student-run a cappella groups on campus: three mixed ensembles (Distilled Harmony, The Downbeats, and The Nor'easters), two treble ensembles (Pitch, Please! and Treble on Huntington), and one TTBB ensemble (UniSons). All groups regularly compete in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). The Nor'easters have performed at ICCA finals in New York City three times and won the ICCA title in 2013 and 2017. Pitch, Please! competed at ICCA finals in 2019.[171] In 2020, The A Cappella Archive ranked The Nor'easters and Pitch, Please! at #3 and #22 out of all ICCA-competing groups.[172]

Athletics

Main article: Northeastern Huskies

Since 1927, Northeastern University's intercollegiate athletic teams have been known as the Huskies.[173] Prior to 1927, Northeastern had no official mascot. A committee was formed to choose a mascot and members eventually settled on the Siberian Husky. In February 1927, a pup was selected from legendary Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race competitor Leonhard Seppala's kennel in Poland Springs, Maine. On March 4, 1927, King Husky I arrived at Northeastern in a campus celebration for which classes were canceled. Since then, live mascots have been a Siberian Husky breed, but after losing two mascots in three months in the early 1970s and after upheaval due to having live canine mascots, the university's administration was reluctant to continue the live mascot tradition. In 2005, the university resumed the live mascot tradition; the current live mascot is named Moses.[174] The university's official costumed mascot is Paws.

The university's official colors are Northeastern red and black, with white often used as an alternate color. The university fight song, "All Hail, Northeastern," was composed by Charles A. Pethybridge, class of 1932.[175] Since 2005, 14 of 18 Northeastern varsity sports teams primarily compete in NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).[176] Northeastern maintains crosstown athletic rivalries primarily with Boston University, Harvard University and Boston College. It also regularly competes against in-state rival University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

During its first decades, Northeastern initially had seven athletics teams: basketball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, crew and football.[110] It has since expanded to more than 16 varsity teams.

Northeastern sponsors the following sports teams:[176]

The baseball, soccer, lacrosse and rugby teams compete at Parsons Field, a multipurpose facility located in Brookline, a mile and a half from the campus. The field's baseball diamond was named Friedman Diamond in 1988. The field hockey team, along with the Huskies' track and field teams, compete at a sports complex about 10 miles (16 km) away from campus in Dedham.[177] Matthews Arena, which opened 1910, is home to the hockey and basketball programs. The 4,666-seat arena is located close to campus, just off Massachusetts Avenue. It is considered the world's oldest multi-purpose athletic building. Henderson Boathouse is home to the Huskies' men's & women's rowing squads. The Henderson Boathouse is located on the Charles River near Soldiers Field Road in Allston. The university also maintains the Cabot Physical Education Center, which opened in 1954 and includes a basketball court; an indoor track and natatorium; the 10,755 square feet (999.2 m2) Gries Center for Sports Medicine and Performance Center; a squash facility; and the William E. Carter Playground, a renovated community park on Columbus Avenue.[178]

The baseball team was founded in 1921 and has since competed in one College World Series and played in the NCAA regionals seven times.[176] It regularly competes in the Baseball Beanpot, a tournament contested annually between Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University, Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. It has won the tournament six times.

The history of the men's basketball team dates back to its first season in 1920–21. In its first year in the CAA, the team finished in 6th place out of 12 teams and advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament. The CAA proved to be a competitive conference in the 2006 NCAA basketball tournament, as George Mason University advanced to the Final Four. The women's basketball program began in 1966. In 2007, its second year in the CAA, the women's track team captured the conference championship, while the volleyball team finished second. The women's basketball team won 10 more games in 2008 than the previous year, the biggest one-year turnaround in the CAA, and advanced to the tournament quarterfinals.[citation needed]

The Northeastern crew team consistently ranks as one of the top 10 teams in the nation.[179] In the 2008 National Championship, the team made the Grand Finals and placed fourth behind University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Washington, and University of California, Berkeley, while defeating Brown University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.[180]

In 2009, Northeastern eliminated its 74-year-old football program.[181] From 1933 to 2009, the Northeastern Huskies football program's all-time record was 290-365-17 (.444), it produced 20 All-Americans and won the 2002 Atlantic 10 Conference championship.[182] Citing sparse attendance, numerous losing seasons and the expense to renovate Parsons Field to an acceptable standard, the university's Board of Trustees voted on November 20, 2009, to end the football program. According to President Joseph Aoun, "Leadership requires that we make these choices. This decision allows us to focus on our existing athletic programs."[183]

In addition to intercollegiate athletics, Northeastern offers 40 club sports, including sailing, judo, rugby, lacrosse, Olympic-Style taekwondo, alpine skiing, squash, cycling, and ultimate Frisbee. In 2005 the women's rugby team finished third in the nation in Division II, while in the same year the men's rugby team won the largest annual tournament in the United States. Recently, the women's rugby team competed and placed 11th at the Collegiate Rugby Championship. The men's lacrosse team began the 2008 season ranked in the Top 10 nationally. The men's and women's squash team finished the 2008 season ranked in the Top 20 nationally. In the 2008–09 academic year the Northeastern Club Field Hockey and Women's Basketball teams won their respective National Championships. From 2007 to 2009, the Northeastern Club Baseball team won three straight New England Club Baseball Association championships.[184] The Club Taekwondo team placed 1st overall in Division II for the 2018–19 Season in the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference.[185]

On May 25, 2010, the club baseball team defeated Penn State to win the National Club Baseball Association Division II World Series and the national championship.[186]

Some notable athletes have competed for Northeastern's athletic teams. Dan Ross played football at Northeastern long before setting the Super Bowl record for receptions in a game. Reggie Lewis still holds the men's basketball career scoring record. José Barea played point guard for the Huskies and averaged 21 points, 4.4 rebounds, 8.4 assists per game as a senior. Barea was signed by the Dallas Mavericks in 2006. Carlos Peña was named Major League Baseball's American League Comeback Player of the Year in 2007 and an AL Gold Glove winner in 2008. The U.S. Olympic women's ice hockey teams have included Northeastern alumni Shelley Looney and Chanda Gunn.[citation needed]

Ice hockey

Ice hockey has been one of Northeastern's most prominent athletic programs. The men's and women's hockey teams compete in the Hockey East conference. During the 2007–08 season, the men's team ranked as high at #7 in the country and held the top spot in the conference before finishing the season in sixth place in Hockey East. Both teams also participate in the annual ice hockey Beanpot tournament between the Boston area's four major college hockey schools. Northeastern's men's team has won the annual event 6 times in its 56-year history, while the women's team has captured the Beanpot 14 times. During the 2008–09 season, the men's team ranked as high as 3rd in the nation and held the top spot in Hockey East until the last weekend of the season; the team made the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994, the Beanpot championship game for the first time since 2004, and goalie Brad Thiessen made the Hobey Hat Trick, only the second Northeastern player to do so. Northeastern won the 2018 Beanpot championship by defeating Boston College, 3–0, in the first match and defeating Boston University, 5–2, in the final match. The victory came after Northeastern attained the highest placement in the 2017–2018 standings of the Beanpot competitors. Northeastern defeated Boston College, 4–2, to win the 2019 Beanpot and defeated Boston University, 5–4, to win the 2020 Beanpot.[187] In 2020, Northeastern beat Boston University, 5–4, in overtime to win the Beanpot for the third year in a row.[188]

The Beanpot also presents two awards to individual players. One is for the most valuable player and one is to the best goalie (determined by best save percentage). The second award is named the Eberly award after Glen and Dan Eberly who were goalies at Northeastern and Boston University. In addition to winning the Beanpot title, Northeastern took home both awards with the award for most valuable player being presented to Adam Gaudette and the Eberly Award being presented to Cayden Primeau who had a save percentage of .974 (making him the goalie with second highest save percentage to win the award in the 44 years the award has been given).[189]

Traditions

Underwear ("Undie") Run

Started in 2005, the Underwear Run is a Northeastern-sponsored event around fall midterm season in which students strip down to their underwear and run a track around campus and near parts of the city. The Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) supervises the event to maintain the flow of traffic through the city. Students have described it as a "liberating experience" that "brings a sense of community and builds school spirit."[190] Though the event was officially cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns, it was unofficially organized by students in fall of 2021.[191]

Husky Hunt

Organized by the Resident Student Association, Husky Hunt is a 24-hour city-wide scavenger hunt that has 50 teams of students roaming around the Greater Boston area in search of locations that correspond to clues, games, puzzles, and riddles.[192] The scavenger hunt starts with a preliminary qualifying quiz of which only 1/3 of the total group of participating teams progress to the hunt. Prizes like iPads and Beats headphones are given to the highest scoring teams.[193]

Notable alumni and faculty

Main article: List of Northeastern University people

Northeastern University has more than 275,000 living alumni based in over 180 countries around the world.[194] Many alumni have distinguished themselves in a wide range of endeavors. They include Nikesh Arora, former senior VP & Chief Business Officer of Google and CEO of Palo Alto Networks; activist short seller Andrew Left; professional basketball player José Juan Barea; former Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke; investigative journalist and Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award recipient Russ Conway; former Massachusetts U.S. Senator Mo Cowan; Saturday Night Live original cast member and actress Jane Curtin; marathon runner Beatie Deutsch; former United States Ambassador to Ireland Richard Egan; filmmaker, musician, and writer Michael J. Epstein; Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning; 10th Archivist of the United States David Ferriero; musician and video game developer Toby Fox; musician John Geils; Webby Award-honored media producer Alan Catello Grazioso; electronic dance music producer RL Grime; New Hampshire governor and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan; Massachusetts Governor-elect Maura Healey; Academy Award-nominated director and screenwriter Courtney Hunt; Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Gregory Jarvis; fashion model and actress Beverly Johnson; Amin Khoury, founder of B/E Aerospace and CEO of KLX Energy Services Holdings; U.S. Olympian (bobsled) and silver medalist Steven Langton; University at Buffalo neurosurgery professor Elad Levy; professional basketball player Reggie Lewis; college president Thomas Michael McGovern; former NPR co-host of Car Talk Tom Magliozzi; actor David Marciano; EMC Corporation co-founder Roger Marino; CEO and Souq.com co-founder Ronaldo Mouchawar; comedian Patrice O'Neal; Washington, D.C. politician Oye Owolewa; billionaire businessman James Pallotta; computer scientist, and researcher Andrea Grimes Parker; former Rhode Island U.S. Senator and governor John O. Pastore; professional baseball player Carlos Peña; Boston Dynamics CEO and founder Marc Raibert; National Football League All-Pro Dan Ross; filmmaker Bettina Santo Domingo; Twitter co-founder Biz Stone; actor Vaughn Taylor; world champion surfer Shaun Tomson; television & radio talk show host Wendy Williams; famous former Northeastern Huskies men's ice hockey players Devon Levi, Jamie Oleksiak, Josh Manson, Adam Gaudette, Anthony Bitetto, Zach Aston-Reese, Don McKenney among others; and professional racing driver Reema Juffali.

Notable faculty

See also

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This article is about the university in the United States For other universities of the same name see Northeastern University disambiguation Northeastern University NU or NEU is a private research university with its main campus in Boston Established in 1898 the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in Charlotte North Carolina Seattle Washington San Jose California Oakland California Portland Maine and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada In 2019 Northeastern purchased the New College of the Humanities in London England The university s enrollment is approximately 20 300 undergraduate students and 13 300 graduate students 6 It is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 7 Northeastern faculty and alumni include Nobel Prize laureates 8 Rhodes Truman Marshall and Churchill scholars 9 Undergraduate admission to the university is categorized as most selective 10 Northeastern UniversityFormer namesEvening Institute for Younger Men 1898 1916 Northeastern College 1916 1922 MottoLux Veritas Virtus Latin Motto in English Light Truth Courage TypePrivate research universityEstablished1898 125 years ago 1898 AccreditationNECHEAcademic affiliationsAICUMNAICUURASpace grantEndowment 1 54 billion June 2022 1 PresidentJoseph E AounProvostDavid MadiganAcademic staff3 049 2020 2 Students27 602 Fall 2020 3 Undergraduates19 004 Fall 2020 3 Postgraduates8 598 Fall 2020 3 LocationBoston Massachusetts United States42 20 24 N 71 05 18 W 42 34000 N 71 08833 W 42 34000 71 08833 Coordinates 42 20 24 N 71 05 18 W 42 34000 N 71 08833 W 42 34000 71 08833CampusLarge City 73 acres 30 hectares Other campuses 4 ArlingtonBurlingtonCharlotteNahantOaklandPortlandSan FranciscoSan JoseSeattleLondonTorontoVancouverNewspaperThe Huntington NewsColorsRed and black 5 NicknameHuskiesSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I CAAHockey EastEARCEAWRCNEISAIRAMascotPaws the HuskyWebsitewww wbr northeastern wbr eduNortheastern features a cooperative education program more commonly known as co op that integrates classroom study with professional experience and includes over 3 100 partners across all seven continents 11 The program has been a key part of Northeastern s curriculum of experiential learning for more than a hundred years and is one of the largest co op internship programs in the world While not required for all academic disciplines participation is nearly universal among undergraduate students 12 Northeastern also has a comprehensive study abroad program that spans more than 170 universities and colleges 13 Northeastern is a large highly residential university Most undergraduate students choose to live on campus but third years and above have the option to live off campus Seventy eight percent of Northeastern students receive some form of financial aid In the 2020 21 school year the university has committed 355 million in grant and scholarship assistance 14 In 2019 Northeastern s six year graduation rate was 89 percent 15 The university s sports teams the Northeastern Huskies compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Colonial Athletic Association CAA in 18 varsity sports The men s and women s hockey teams compete in Hockey East while the men s and women s rowing teams compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges EARC and Eastern Association of Women s Rowing Colleges EAWRC respectively 16 Men s Track and Field won the CAA back to back years in 2015 and 2016 In 2013 men s basketball won its first CAA regular season championship men s soccer won the CAA title for the first time and women s ice hockey won a record 16th Beanpot championship 17 The Northeastern men s hockey team won the 2018 2019 2020 and 2023 Beanpot defeating Boston University Boston College and Harvard 18 19 20 21 Contents 1 History 1 1 Early development 1 2 Recent history 1 3 Presidents 2 Undergraduate admissions 3 Rankings 3 1 Specialty rankings 4 Academics 4 1 Colleges and schools 4 2 Honors Program 4 3 Co op internship program 4 4 Study abroad 4 4 1 Dialogues of Civilizations 4 4 2 N U in 4 5 Research 4 6 Faculty 5 Campus 5 1 Campus development 5 2 Sustainability 5 3 Public safety 5 4 Public transportation 5 5 Landmarks 5 5 1 Krentzman Quadrangle 5 5 2 Ell Hall 5 5 3 Dodge Hall 5 5 4 Richards Hall 5 5 5 Centennial Common 5 5 6 Interdisciplinary Science amp Engineering Complex 5 5 7 Matthews Arena 5 5 8 Marino Recreation Center 5 5 9 Residential Halls 5 5 9 1 East Village 5 5 9 2 West Village 5 5 10 South Campus Columbus Avenue 5 5 11 Library facilities 5 5 12 Spiritual Life Center and Sacred Space 6 Network campuses 7 Student organizations 7 1 Athletics 7 2 Ice hockey 7 3 Traditions 7 3 1 Underwear Undie Run 7 3 2 Husky Hunt 8 Notable alumni and faculty 8 1 Notable faculty 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksHistory EditEarly development Edit The Huntington Avenue YMCA c 1920 site of the Evening Institute for Younger Men In May 1896 directors of the Boston Young Men s Christian Association the first in the U S established an Evening Institute for Younger Men to merge coordinate and improve its classes that had evolved over the past 40 years Included among roughly 30 courses offered were algebra bookkeeping literature French German Latin geography electricity music penmanship and physiology In addition a banjo club camera club orchestra and weekly parliamentary debates and discussions were promoted A good education for any young man of moral character with a YMCA membership was promised Located in a new headquarters building at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets in Boston the institute held its first classes in 1898 After a fire a new YMCA building was constructed on Huntington Avenue in 1913 22 The School of Law was also formally established in 1898 with the assistance of an advisory committee consisting of James Barr Ames dean of the Harvard Law School Samuel Bennett dean of the Boston University School of Law and Judge James R Dunbar In 1903 the first Automobile Engineering School in the country was established followed by a Polytechnic School in 1904 and a School of Commerce and Finance in 1907 Day classes began in 1909 In 1916 a bill was introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature to incorporate the institute as Northeastern College After considerable debate and investigation it was passed in March 1916 23 In 1909 the Polytechnic School began offering co operative engineering courses to eight students A four year daytime program had been established consisting of alternating single weeks of classroom instruction and practical work experience with mostly railroad companies that agreed to accept student workers In 1920 the Co operative School of Engineering which later became the College of Engineering was first authorized to grant degrees in civil chemical electrical and mechanical engineering 22 24 The cooperative program the second of its kind in the U S after one in Cincinnati Ohio was eventually adopted by all departments 25 On March 30 1917 veteran educator Frank Palmer Speare who had served as director of the institute was inaugurated as the first president of the newly incorporated Northeastern College Five years later the college changed its name to Northeastern University to better reflect the increasing depth of its instruction 26 In March 1923 the university secured general A B and B S degree granting power from the Legislature with the exception of the medical and dental degrees 24 The College of Liberal Arts was added in 1935 Two years later the Northeastern University Corporation was established with a board of trustees composed of 31 university members and 8 from the YMCA Following World War II Northeastern began admitting women In 1948 Northeastern separated itself completely from the YMCA 27 By 1959 when Carl Ell who had expanded the university stepped down as president Northeastern had a local identity as an independent technical university serving a commuter and adult population 28 That reputation began changing during the presidency of Asa S Knowles from 1959 to 1975 Facing a postwar educational boom the university broadened undergraduate offerings increased graduate offerings modernized administrative and faculty structures created a Faculty Senate launched its first ever capital campaign reorganized and expanded adult and continuing education and increased the number of colleges The university created the College of Education 1953 University College 1960 now called the College of Professional Studies and the colleges of Pharmacy and Nursing 1964 which both later merged into the Bouve College of Health Sciences 29 The creation of the College of Criminal Justice 1967 followed and then the Khoury College of Computer Sciences 1982 the first college in the United States dedicated to the field of computer science 30 31 The period between 1959 and 1975 is also often described generally as The Age of Student Unrest or The Student Revolution when campuses across the United States were rocked with dissension against institutional discrimination and the Vietnam War Northeastern s student population not only grew considerably larger but also more diverse during this time At the beginning of this period most of the student body was composed of white males from New England the majority of whom came from the Boston area public schools and primarily studied business or engineering By 1974 75 women accounted for 33 percent of the nearly 14 000 undergraduates students while 5 percent were black Moreover over 900 students came from different foreign countries Of the graduating class of 2 238 513 were in Liberal Arts 462 in Engineering 389 in Business 227 in Pharmacy and Allied Health and the remainder were roughly divided among Education Boston Bouve Nursing and Criminal Justice 32 To attract more women the university refurbished existing facilities constructed new women s dormitories and encouraged their participation in all programs The merger with Boston Bouve a women s college dedicated to physical health and the creation of the College of Nursing traditionally a female profession also contributed to the increase Though there was an explicit nondiscrimination policy on the books throughout its history Northeastern had only a handful of black students In the early 1960s with financial assistance from the Ford Foundation in New York in the form of scholarships and co ops to black high school students Northeastern began actively recruiting black students By 1975 black student led organizations included the Afro photo Society Student Grill Health Careers Club The Onyx a black student newspaper Muhindi Literary Guild the Outing Club Black Engineering Society and the first recognized black fraternity at the university the Omicron Chapter of Iota Phi Theta In addition the number of foreign students increased from 170 in the 1950s and 1960s to 960 by 1974 75 32 Recent history Edit Northeastern s historic Ell Hall on Huntington Avenue By the early 1980s under President Kenneth G Ryder the one time night commuter school had grown into one of the largest private universities in the nation at around 50 000 students In 1990 the first class with more live on campus rather than commuter students was graduated After Ryder s retirement in 1989 the university adopted a slow and more thoughtful approach to change 33 Following an economic downturn a 1991 trustee committee report described the situation as life threatening to Northeastern warning of a 17 million budget gap with no funding mechanisms to cover it 33 That year President John A Curry formulated a new strategy of transforming Northeastern into a smaller leaner better place to work and study describing unacceptable compromises in the quality and reputation of the university that had been made in the quest for more students Staff were terminated and admissions targets were reduced with applicant numbers beginning to rise by the end of Curry s tenure 33 Robert J Shillman Hall constructed in 1995 When Curry left office in 1996 the university population had been systematically reduced to about 25 000 Incoming President Richard M Freeland decided to focus on recruiting the type of students who were already graduating as the school s prime demographic 33 Freeland focused on improving academics and restructuring the administration with a goal of creating the country s premier program of practice oriented education 33 In the early 1990s the university began a 485 million construction program that included residence halls academic and research facilities and athletic centers During the university s transition Freeland reorganized the co operative education system decentralizing it into a department based system to allow better integration of classroom learning with workplace experience 33 Full time degree programs shifted from a four quarter system to two traditional semesters and two summer minimesters allowing students to both delve more deeply into their academic courses and have longer and more substantive co op placements forcing departments to redesign aging programs to fit the longer format 33 Freeland also created a marketing department uncommon for universities at the time and expanded the university advancement office while setting an ambitious 200 million fundraising target with the goal of reducing dependency on tuition 33 Between 1995 and 2007 average SAT exam scores increased more than 200 points retention rates rose dramatically and applications doubled 34 In 1998 Freeland set an admissions target of 2 800 freshman per year allowing for adequate tuition income without compromising on education 33 Throughout the transformation his oft repeated goal was to crack the top 100 of the U S News amp World Report s rankings of America s best universities 35 With this accomplished by 2005 the transformation goal from commuting school to nationally recognized research university was complete Freeland stepped down on August 15 2006 and was followed by President Joseph E Aoun a former dean at the University of Southern California 36 As part of a five year 75 million Academic Investment Plan that ran from 2004 to 2009 the university concentrated on undergraduate education core graduate professional programs and centers of research excellence Faculty was originally to be bolstered by 100 new tenured and tenure track professors later expanded to include 300 additional tenure and tenure track faculty in interdisciplinary fields Aoun also placed more emphasis on improving community relations by reaching out to leaders of the neighborhoods surrounding the university 37 In addition Aoun created more academic partnerships with other institutions in the Boston area including Tufts University Hebrew College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts 38 During this period Northeastern rapidly advanced in national rankings It placed 42nd in the 2014 15 edition of U S News amp World Report s best colleges and universities rankings a 7 position jump from 2013 14 and a 27 place gain since 2010 11 39 Critics have argued that Northeastern s rise in the rankings shows that the university has cracked the code to academic rankings while others suggested it figured out how to game the system 40 41 The 2021 edition of U S News amp World Report ranked Northeastern 49th in its annual ranking of national universities 39 Whether or not the rise was an effort to reverse engineer the controversial rankings formula critics would likely agree that the positive feedback effect of its placement in turn allowed the institution to significantly increase its endowment admit a more competitive student body hire new faculty add to its campuses and expand its flagship co op program 42 The Empower Campaign was launched in May 2013 for student support faculty advancement expansion innovation in education and research Its goal was to raise 1 billion by 2017 with half of that being from philanthropic support and the other half from industry and government partnerships The goal was raised to 1 25 billion in 2015 The campaign was inspired by Richard D Amore and Alan McKim s 60 million donation to the university s business school in 2012 43 In October 2017 Northeastern revealed that the final total of the Empower campaign was 1 4 billion More than 100 000 individuals and over 3 800 organizations donated to Empower from 110 countries 44 Presidents Edit Presidents of Northeastern University Frank Palmer Speare 1898 1940 Carl Stephens Ell 1940 1959 Asa S Knowles 1959 1975 Kenneth G Ryder 1975 1989 John A Curry 1989 1996 Richard M Freeland 1996 2006 Joseph E Aoun 2006 present Undergraduate admissions EditFall enrollment statistics freshmen 2022 45 46 2021 47 2020 48 2019 49 2018 50 Applicants 91 086 75 244 64 459 62 263 62 272Admits 6 179 13 829 13 199 11 240 12 042Admit rate 6 7 18 20 18 19 Enrolled 2 620 4 504 3 128 2 996 2 746SAT range 1440 1530 1430 1540 1390 1540 1360 1540ACT range 33 35 33 35 32 35 33 35For undergraduate students Northeastern s 2022 acceptance rate was 6 7 Of the record large pool of 90 989 applicants only 6 179 were admitted 2020 acceptance rate was 18 1 For the Class of 2024 Northeastern received 64 459 applications with 13 199 students accepted In 2018 the record number of applications led to a drop in acceptance rate eight percentage points lower than the previous year Additionally Northeastern was one of the top ten most applied to colleges in 2018 46 For the Class of 2022 enrolling fall 2018 Northeastern received 62 272 applications accepted 12 042 19 and enrolled 2 746 50 For the freshmen who enrolled the middle 50 range of SAT scores was 670 750 for reading and writing 690 790 for math while the middle 50 range ACT composite range was 32 34 50 Of those who applied in 2016 9 500 were international students up from 1 128 international applicants in 2006 51 Of those who enrolled 20 were international students In the Power of International Education s 2017 Open Doors report Northeastern was ranked as the fourth highest institution in the United States to host international students 52 53 51 When it comes to both undergraduate and graduate students the number of international students totals over 12 000 representing 138 different nations and over half of the student body The number of international students at Northeastern has steadily increased by about 1 000 students every year since 2008 54 Rankings EditAcademic rankingsNationalForbes 55 79THE WSJ 56 86U S News amp World Report 57 44Washington Monthly 58 138GlobalARWU 59 201 300QS 60 388THE 61 168U S News amp World Report 62 198In the 2023 edition of U S News amp World Report rankings Northeastern was tied for 44th in the National Universities category 63 Specialty rankings Edit 1st in Best Co ops Internships U S News amp World Report 2020 2021 2022 2023 63 1st in Best Schools for Internships Princeton Review 2017 2018 64 1st in Best Internships Career Services Princeton Review 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015 citation needed 2nd in Best Graduate Psychology Programs 2018 65 2nd in Best Physician Assistant Programs 2018 65 3rd in Best Nursing Anesthesia Programs 2018 65 3rd in Best Career Services Princeton Review 2016 2017 2018 66 4th in Top 25 Entrepreneurship Ugrad Princeton Review 2017 2018 67 4th in Best Health Care Law Programs 2018 65 6th in Most Innovative Schools U S News amp World Report 2018 up from 7th in 2017 68 7th in The Top 25 B A Theatre Programs for 2018 19 OnStage Blog 69 9th in Best Undergraduate International Business Programs U S News amp World Report 2018 70 Academics EditNortheastern offers undergraduate majors in 65 departments At the graduate level there are about 125 programs A Northeastern education is interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial Founded in 2009 IDEA is Northeastern University s student led Venture Accelerator which provides entrepreneurs including students faculty and alumni in the Northeastern community with the necessary support and educational experience towards developing a business from core concept to launch Academics at Northeastern is grounded in a liberal arts education and the integration of classroom studies with experiential learning opportunities including cooperative education student research service learning and global experience including study abroad and international co op The university s cooperative education program places about 10 000 students annually in full time paid professional positions with more than 3 000 co op employers in Boston and around the world 71 72 In 2014 College Prowler gave Northeastern an A rating for the quality of classes professors and overall academic environment 73 Northeastern University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education 74 Colleges and schools Edit Colleges listed including schools and degrees offered 75 College of Arts Media and Design BA BFA BLA BS M Arch MA M Des MFA MS Graduate Certificate School of Architecture Department of Art Design Department of Communication Studies Department of Media and Screen Studies Department of Music Department of Theatre Games at Northeastern School of Journalism D Amore McKim School of Business BSBA BSIB BS MBA MS MSA MSF MSIB MSIM MST Graduate Certificate School of Technological Entrepreneurship Khoury College of Computer Sciences BACS BS BSCS BSIS MS MSCS MSIA PhD Graduate Certificate College of Engineering BS BSBioE BSCE BSCHE BSCompE BSEE BSIE BSME MS MSBioE MSCHE MSCivE MSCSE MSECE MSECEL MSEM MSENVE MSIE MSME MSOR MSSBS MSTSM PhD Graduate Certificate Department of Bioengineering Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership Bouve College of Health Sciences AuD BS BSN CAGS DPN DPT MPH MS MSCP PharmD PhD Graduate Certificate Department of Applied Psychology Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Department of Health Sciences Department of Physical Therapy Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences The School of Nursing The School of Pharmacy College of Professional Studies BS BSET DLP 76 DPT EdD MA MAT MEd MPS MS MSLD Graduate Certificate Undergraduate Certificate English Language Center School of Education Lowell Institute School School Health Institute World Languages Center College of Science BA BS MS MSOR PhD Graduate Certificate Biochemistry Program Department of Biology Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences Department of Mathematics Department of Physics Department of Psychology Linguistics at Northeastern College of Social Science and Humanities BA Bachelor of Science MA MPA MS MSCJ PhD Graduate Certificate Asian Studies Program ASL Program Department of African American Studies Department of Economics Department of English Department of History Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures Department of Philosophy and Religion Department of Political Science Department of Sociology and Anthropology Human Services Program International Affairs Program Jewish Studies Program School of Criminology and Criminal Justice School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs School of Law MS JD Honors Program Edit The University Honors Program offers selected students an enhanced curriculum These students are selected from the regular applicant pool with no separate application and represent the applicants with the highest GPA and SAT ACT scores that year The culminating experience is advanced specialty work in a major field through college specific choices including specialized advanced honors seminars and an independent research project 77 In addition students in the Honors Program exclusively can live in a Living Learning Community housed in West Villages C 78 and F In Fall 2009 the university began housing first year Honors students in the lower nine floors of the newly constructed International Village residence hall Starting in Fall 2017 these students are housed in the lower floors of the even newer 17 story East Village residence hall 2017 also marked the beginning of the Honors Discovery course and the introduction of the Student Assessed Integrated Learning SAIL app 79 Co op internship program Edit Launched in 1909 Northeastern has one of the largest and oldest cooperative education co op programs in the world 80 In the co op program students alternate periods of academic study with periods of professional employment usually paid related to their major Students can choose to complete one or two co op experiences to graduate in four years or they can choose to complete three co ops to graduate in five years Students on co op do not pay tuition and students not living on campus do not pay room and board The co op program typically begins the spring of the second year or fall of the third year after a more traditional program for the first semesters on campus Students usually take anywhere between one and three with 96 participating in one and 78 participating in two or more 81 Co op placements range from small start up companies to large multinational companies including many Fortune 500 corporations The program also places students with government agencies branches of government nonprofits and non governmental organizations Northeastern students can be found interning in the United States Congress the White House United Nations and at NASA Student placements usually last six months and most of the time students are paid Students may live in the university residence halls on campus during co op employment and the university currently leases housing for students co oping in New York City San Francisco Seattle and Washington D C and assists elsewhere 82 Northeastern co op students staying in Boston usually benefit from the fact that the city s most prominent industries have numerous offices headquarters there Boston s most consequential industries such as its financial sector technology sector and medicine life sciences sector tend to hire many co ops in these fields especially to big name companies When it comes to D amore Mckim Business students many co ops end up working for large financial firms such as State Street and John Hancock Financial Accounting firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC and Deloitte amp Touche as well as consulting firms such as Boston Consulting Group tend to hire many co ops every cycle as well Retail companies like TJX Companies and Staples tend to hire several marketing students every cycle 83 Some students also decide to develop their own co ops if they wish to do something that is not offered This usually involves starting a new company or reaching out to a company Northeastern does not have a partnership with and facilitating the creation of a co op partnership Many companies continually pass down their co op opportunities to Northeastern students so these new partnerships are documented in Northeastern s co op database known as NUCareers to be given to future Northeastern students Students that decide to start their own companies are usually involved with IDEA Northeastern s Venture Accelerator and will sometimes spend their entire two or three co ops solely developing their companies They might also join the Husky Startup Challenge which also helps develop student run companies If a company is successful in either IDEA the Husky Startup Challenge or both they often to move onto MassChallenge in Boston which is a huge global non profit startup accelerator and competition 84 All Northeastern students take at least one class which prepares them for their co op and the expectations of a given industry Some schools such as D Amore McKim have students take three different one credit classes to prepare them for their co op During these classes students work with advisers inside and outside of class to pursue potential co ops as well as work on strategies to make themselves more competitive against other candidates 85 The co op program has led to the university s high reputation when it comes to job placement 50 of Northeastern students receive a job offer from a previous co op employer as of 2017 update 11 92 were either employed or enrolled in graduate school 9 months after graduation 86 This has also led Northeastern to consistently rank within the top 5 in the Princeton Review s list for Best Career Services Internships within the last decade mainly taking the top spot The list split into Best Career Services and Best Internships in 2016 and Northeastern currently when ranks 3rd for career services and 5th for internships in the United States 87 64 Study abroad Edit Northeastern has semester long study abroad programs with placements in Africa Asia Australia Europe and South America Some participating schools include University of Cambridge and London School of Economics England University of Edinburgh Scotland Reims Management School France European School of Business Germany University of Cape Town South Africa University of Auckland New Zealand Swinburne University of Technology Australia Obirin University Japan American College of Thessaloniki Greece and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Chile and also Antarctica 88 Northeastern s International Business program is a member of the International Partnership of Business Schools Through this program International Business students have the opportunity to be awarded a dual degree from Northeastern as well as from a sister school abroad 89 Since the arrival of President Aoun in 2006 the school has also been emphasizing co op abroad in an effort to make the school more global and internationally engaged There are many programs being offered including social entrepreneurship in the Peru Kenya and South Africa 90 Dialogues of Civilizations Edit Northeastern also has the notable Dialogues of Civilizations program which features dozens of one month long programs usually taking place in the summer where a faculty member will teach a group of students in a region related to the curriculum of a specific class A sort of mini study abroad each program has an area of focus for example the Geneva program focuses on small arms and multilateral negotiations while the South Africa program is based in non governmental organizations and the Seattle program focuses on design thinking This program is meant to be a communicative experience and an exchange of ideas and cultures It is open to all majors and all years and is the most popular external study option at Northeastern 91 The program is used by some Northeastern students to gain extra credits for a minor or concentration and can also be used by students trying to graduate in 4 years while also participating in one or more co ops The program will sometimes take place in multiple locations Entrepreneurship and Global Consulting in Israel is a dialogue that starts in Boston and eventually has students go to Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva Israel 92 Some dialogues span multiple countries with one being taught in Marrakesh Morocco then in Amsterdam and concluding in Paris 93 N U in Edit Northeastern also offers a program called N U in which has first year students start their first semester studying abroad This program accepts students into the university but has them spend their first semester studying at a foreign university partnered with Northeastern Students take classes and these credits transfer over to Northeastern when they arrive on campus in the spring The program began in 2007 with the creation of N U in Australia and only had the option for students to go abroad during their fall semester An option for freshman to go abroad in their spring was later added called N U in Spring and later renamed Global Quest By 2012 500 students enrolled in the N U in program which at the time offered the destinations of London Dublin Thessaloniki Greece Sydney and San Jose Costa Rica By 2017 that number grew to 1 100 students and the program had expanded to Shanghai Rome Berlin Montreal Melbourne and removed San Jose as an N U in destination 94 Research Edit Research Centers and Institutes at Northeastern include 95 Advanced Scientific Computation Center ASCC Anti microbial Discovery Center Awareness and Localization of Explosives Related Threats ALERT Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis Bernard M Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems Gordon CenSSIS Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict Center for Communications and Digital Signal Processing CDSP Center for Community Health Education Research and Service CCHERS Center for Complex Network Research CCNR Center for Drug Discovery Center for Emerging Markets Center for Entrepreneurship Education Center for Family Business Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research Center for Health Policy and Law Center for Healthcare Organizational Transformation CHOT Center for High rate Nanomanufacturing CHN Center for Inclusive Computing Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing CIBC Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems CIRCS Center for International Affairs and World Cultures Center for Law Innovation and Creativity CLIC Center for Microcontamination Control CMC Center for Microwave Magnetic Materials and Integrated Circuits CM3IC Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration CPIAC Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico CRECE Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems TANMS Center for Translational NeuroImaging CTNI Center for Ultra wide area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks CURENT Center on Crime and Community Resilience CMS Innovation Center for Healthcare Systems Engineering Coastal Sustainability Institute Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy Electronic Materials Research Institute eMRI Ethics Institute George J Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security Global Resilience Institute Humanities Center Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems Institute for Global Innovation Management IGIM Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research Institute for Information Assurance Institute for Security and Public Policy Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Institute on Race and Justice Interdisciplinary Science amp Engineering Complex ISEC Marine Science Center National Education and Research Center for Outcomes Assessment in Healthcare NERCOA Network Science Institute New England Healthcare Systems Engineering Partnership NEHCEP New England Inflammation and Tissue Protection Institute Northeastern University Center for Renewable Energy Technology NUCRET NULab for Texts Maps and Networks Public Health Advocacy Institute PHAI Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats PROTECT Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute Sport in Society previously the Center for the Study of Sport in Society 96 The Middle East Center The Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative NEJRC Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors VOTERS The university provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to engage in research through the Center for Experiential Education 97 CenSSIS Research Experience for Undergraduates 98 Honors Research Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program 99 and Provost s Office research grants 100 In FY 2007 annual external research funding exceeded 78 million 101 In FY 2009 10 the research funding is close to 82 million 102 In 2002 Northeastern s Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems was designated an NSF Engineering Research Center In 2004 Northeastern was one of six institutions selected by the National Science Foundation as a center for research in nanotechnology In 2010 Northeastern was granted 12 million by an alum for a Homeland security research facility 103 to be named the George J Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security after its chief benefactor 103 Faculty Edit See also List of Northeastern University faculty Northeastern had 1 352 full time faculty 95 of whom possess a doctorate or the terminal degree in their field and 479 part time faculty in Fall 2018 2 Northeastern faculty members direct more than 35 research and education centers including a National Science Foundation NSF Engineering Research Center an NSF Nanomanufacturing Center and two NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship programs citation needed Campus EditNortheastern University s main campus is located on 73 acres 30 ha mostly along Huntington Avenue and Columbus Avenue in an area known as the Fenway Cultural District part of Boston s Fenway and Roxbury neighborhood near the Museum of Fine Arts Symphony Hall New England Conservatory and Christian Science Center Despite its location in central Boston Northeastern is home to a significant amount of green open space and quads 104 Since the late 1990s Northeastern has been considered a model of design for urban universities and has twice won the American Institute of Architects s Most Beautiful New or Renovated Exterior Space award in 2001 and 2004 105 In 2019 the campus was officially designated as an arboretum by ArbNet making it the only campus in Boston to receive the designation 106 107 The first baseball World Series took place on the Huntington Avenue Grounds now part of the campus The site is commemorated in front of Churchill Hall by a statue of Cy Young 108 In 2014 Northeastern officially launched a Public Art Initiative to place a series of colorful murals and other art around the Boston campus Among those whose work has been commissioned are French artist Jef Aerosol Houston born artist Daniel Anguilu Los Angeles based El Mac and Charleston South Carolina born artist Shepard Fairey known for his 2008 Barack Obama Hope poster 109 Campus development Edit Completed in 2002 the Behrakis Health Sciences Center houses the Bouve College of Health Sciences During the Great Depression in the 1930s as enrollment grew to over 4 600 students President Frank Palmer Speare announced that Northeastern would build a new campus 110 Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott a Boston based architectural firm was selected to design the campus near the Huntington Avenue YMCA building that continued to house library and classroom spaces Richards Hall which housed classrooms laboratories and administrative offices was the first building completed in October 1938 Its light gray glazed brick exterior with vertical strips of windows was replicated in other buildings of what later became known as the 1944 master plan A mix of Beaux Arts and Bauhaus architectural styles defined by stripped down classicism and open courtyards that resembled that of Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the Charles River In a June 14 1934 article the Boston Evening Transcript described the campus design as modernistic classical 110 President Carl Ell completed the remaining buildings of the master plan including construction of the Cabot Physical Education Center Churchill Hall and Hayden Hall In 1961 under President Asa Knowles the university purchased a 7 acre red brick industrial complex once owned by the United Drug Company to build to athletic facilities Three of the buildings facing Forsyth Street were demolished but due to a need for more office and lab space the remaining buildings were divided into four sections now called Lake Hall Holmes Hall Nightingale Hall and Meserve Hall 111 The historic structure built in 1911 would influence new campus buildings away from the original gray brick campus as exemplified by the extension of the law school s Cargill Hall in the early 1980s Over past few decades Northeastern s academic and residential buildings have expanded considerably Through landscape improvements the university transformed a commuter school campus once dominated by asphalt to a greener environment For example the Behrakis Health Sciences Center named for 1957 pharmaceutical alumnus George Behrakis is a 240 000 square feet 22 000 m2 mixed use project that included a residence hall and parking garage containing a garden roof integrates smoothly into the campus Centennial Path was added in 1996 and connects the gray and red brick sections of campus with trees flowers shrubbery and gently curving brick and asphalt surfaces During the last few years major developments include Northeastern becoming recognized as an arboretum opening a 225 million research and laboratory complex known as the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex ISEC launching the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence with a 50 million donation as well as renaming the College of Computer and Information Science to the Khoury College of Computer Sciences with another 50 million donation from Amin Khoury 106 112 113 114 Upcoming projects include plans to build EXP another research facility created to support Northeastern s work in autonomous vehicles drones and humanoid robots This building will be approximately 100 000 square feet 9 300 m2 larger than ISEC and is expected to be completed by 2023 115 Sustainability Edit Northeastern University campus in the spring The 2011 Sustainable Endowments Institute s College Sustainability Report Card issued Northeastern a grade of A for its environmental sustainability efforts and programs 116 Additionally the Princeton Review rated Northeastern as one of the top 15 Green Colleges in the nation in 2010 117 In 2011 the GreenMetric World University ranking evaluated Northeastern as the second greenest university in the world and first in the US 118 Northeastern placed first in the rankings again in 2014 119 In accordance with a Boston zoning code amendment in 2007 120 International Village residence hall was certified as a LEED Gold building in 2010 121 Dockser Hall was the first building on campus to achieve LEED certification also Gold with the completion of its renovation in 2010 122 East Village was rated LEED Silver in 2016 and the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex was rated LEED Gold in 2018 123 124 The university affiliated LightView apartment building is targeting a LEED Platinum certification the first in student housing in the City of Boston 125 In 2004 Northeastern was awarded the prestigious gold medal by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for its Dedham Campus 126 Public safety Edit A pedestrian bridge spanning five MBTA and Amtrak rail lines connects the Huntington Avenue and Columbus Avenue sides of the Boston campus The Northeastern University Police Department NUPD is a full service law enforcement agency with full powers of arrest on university property or property used by Northeastern students and faculty In 2019 NUPD received Advanced Accreditation with Excellence from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies CALEA one of six agencies in Massachusetts to receive CALEA accreditation 127 128 The campus is adjacent to the Boston Police Department s headquarters A 2008 Reader s Digest survey ranked NU as the second safest school in the United States after Johns Hopkins University in Maryland 129 Public transportation Edit Northeastern is bracketed by the MBTA s Orange Line and Green Line E branch Five stations serve the campus Massachusetts Avenue and Ruggles on the Orange Line and Symphony Northeastern and Museum of Fine Arts on the Green Line The Green Line is paralleled by the 39 bus Ruggles also serves the Needham Providence Stoughton and Franklin Lines of the MBTA Commuter Rail system and 14 local bus routes 130 Landmarks Edit Krentzman Quadrangle Edit Facing Huntington Avenue Krentzman Quadrangle is the main quadrangle on the campus of Northeastern It is recognizable by the Northeastern University brick sign in front The quad lies at the heart of the original campus between Ell Dodge and Richards halls and serves as a gathering space for community members and outdoor activities It was named after Harvey Krentzman a businessman and 1949 alumnus 131 Ell Hall Edit View of Ell Hall constructed in 1947 Ell Hall completed in 1947 is one of the oldest buildings on campus and is centered on Krentzman Quadrangle It contains administrative offices classrooms art display space a 992 seat auditorium and the Northeastern Bookstore Like Dodge Hall Ell Hall has five floors and also connects to the tunnel network The tunnels interconnect the major administrative and traditional academic buildings for use in inclement weather 132 Blackman Auditorium Northeastern s largest event space hosts many different types of events for classes theater groups dance teams musical groups choral groups fraternities sororities and orchestral ensembles Blackman has hosted many talented individuals from Maya Angelou to Seth Meyers 133 Gallery 360 is Northeastern University s art gallery which is free and open to the public throughout the year The 1 000 square foot 93 m2 space houses temporary exhibits of artworks by visiting artists students faculty and the surrounding community Some larger exhibits also include the adjacent hallways for additional space Curation and administration is under the supervision of the College of Arts Media and Design CAMD 134 Ell Hall was named for Carl Ell president of Northeastern from 1940 to 1959 who is credited with expanding the campus and making cooperative education an integral part of the university wide curriculum 110 Dodge Hall Edit Dodge Hall sits on Krentzman Quadrangle and primarily serves as the home of Northeastern s D Amore McKim School of Business The building was completed in 1952 and named for Robert Gray Dodge a former chairman of Northeastern s board of trustees It has five floors 135 Classrooms and a lounge area occupy the first floor The business school s undergraduate office is on the second floor and the graduate office is on the third floor The School of Professional Accounting office is on the fourth floor The basement houses a computer lab and is connected to the university s large network of tunnels From 1953 until Snell Library opened in 1990 Dodge Hall s basement served as the university s main library 136 137 Directly behind Dodge Hall is the Boston YMCA where Northeastern was founded in 1898 Richards Hall Edit Originally known as West Building Richards Hall borders Krentzman Quadrangle and was the first building constructed on campus in October 1938 Its light gray brick and vertical window strips design was the work of alumnus Herman Voss and was replicated in other surrounding buildings 110 It is an administrative building with some academic space Richards Hall was named for Boston industrialist James Lorin Richards a former board trustee 22 Centennial Common Centennial Common Edit Centennial Common is a lawn created to mark the 100th anniversary of Northeastern University in 1998 The grassy area borders Shillman Hall Ryder Hall Meserve Hall Leon Street Forsyth Street and Ruggles Station and serves as a gateway to the West Campus The area is a popular gathering spot frequently used by students for recreational purposes and outdoor activities by student organizations 138 Interdisciplinary Science amp Engineering Complex Edit Interior of the Interdisciplinary Science amp Engineering Complex ISEC Main article Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex On February 21 2014 Northeastern had its groundbreaking ceremony for the new Interdisciplinary Science amp Engineering Complex ISEC on Columbus Avenue 139 Completed in 2017 the 220 000 square foot 20 000 m2 building provides research and educational space for students and faculty from the College of Science Bouve College of Health Sciences College of Engineering and Khoury College of Computer Sciences The centerpiece of the complex includes a large atrium a spiral staircase and a 280 seat auditorium 140 Matthews Arena Edit Main article Matthews Arena Matthews Arena home to Northeastern s hockey and basketball teams Opened in 1910 and originally known as the Boston Arena Matthews Arena is the world s oldest surviving indoor ice hockey arena 141 Located on the eastern edge of Northeastern University s campus it is home to the Northeastern Huskies men s and women s hockey teams and men s basketball team as well as the Wentworth Institute of Technology s men s hockey team The arena is named after former university Board of Trustees Chairman George J Matthews a 1956 graduate and his wife the late Hope M Matthews who helped fund a major renovation in 1982 142 The arena is the original home of the NHL Boston Bruins and the WHA New England Whalers now the NHL Carolina Hurricanes It was also the secondary home to the NBA Boston Celtics in the 1940s It has hosted all or part of the America East Conference men s basketball tournament a total of seven times and hosted the 1960 Frozen Four The arena also served as the original home to the annual Beanpot tournament between Boston s four major college hockey programs 143 Marino Recreation Center Edit Marino Recreation Center completed in 1996 The Marino Recreation Center named after 1961 alumnus Roger Marino co founder of EMC Corporation is an indoor fitness center that opened in the Fall of 1996 144 Residential Halls Edit Residential halls at Northeastern vary quite significantly from low rise former Boston apartment buildings to purpose built high rise dormitories Residential halls vary in size from as few as 50 students to as many as 1 000 per building Traditional Accommodations Hastings Hall Kerr Hall Light Hall Melvin Hall Smith Hall Speare Hall Stetson East Stetson West White HallSuite Style Accommodations 153 Hemenway Street Kennedy Hall International Village East VillageApartment Style Accommodations Davenport Commons A amp B West Villages A B C E F G H 10 Coventry 780 Columbus Ave 106 110 116 122 St Stephen St 319 337 amp 407 Huntington Ave Burstein Hall Loftman Hall Rubenstein Hall Willis Hall 144 Hemenway St Lightview First year students are usually divided into groups called Living Learning Communities LLCs which place students with certain majors interests or hobbies together LLCs host events related to specific areas of interest for members of that LLC to participate in LLCs can span sections of floors in a residential hall entire floors multiple floors or entire buildings East Village Edit East Village is Northeastern s newest dorm building and only houses freshmen and upperclassmen who are in the University Honors Program 145 The building is located at 291 St Botolph Street and opened in January 2015 146 147 Honors freshman live in its suite style rooms whereas upperclassmen can choose full apartments with kitchen facilities The building also contains 5 classrooms in the basement and an event space on the 17th Floor 148 West Village Edit West Village A North residence hall West Village quadrangle in autumn The West Village complex includes eight buildings serving mainly as residence halls and classrooms Building A opened 1999 Residence Hall two sections West Village A North and South Building B opened 2001 Residence Hall Building C opened 2001 Residence Hall several floors for upperclassmen honors students and one classroom Building D Behrakis Health Science Center opened 2002 classrooms and laboratories Building E opened 2002 Residence Hall Building G opened 2004 Residence Hall and several classrooms Building H opened 2004 Residence Hall Open to students who are over the age of 21 Single rooms only It s the new home of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences several classrooms offices and computer labs Building H was originally reserved for honors student but that rule was dropped Building F opened 2006 Residence Hall for upper class students classrooms John D O Bryant African American Institute Admissions Visitors Center In 2008 West Village Building F was recognized in American Institute of Architects New England 2008 Merit Awards for Design Excellence 149 Lightview under construction in 2019 South Campus Columbus Avenue Edit Northeastern s southernmost section of campus is located along Columbus Avenue in Roxbury parallel to the Orange line The university expanded south into Roxbury at the same time as they were building West Village In 2001 Davenport Commons was opened providing 585 students housing in two residence halls while 75 families representing a range of incomes have been able to purchase a condo or townhouse at or below Boston s market value Davenport Commons also created commercial space on Tremont Street 150 During the summer of 2006 Northeastern proposed a new residence hall further away from the main campus at the corner of Tremont Street and Ruggles Street Construction began in late February 2007 In the Spring of 2009 the complex was named International Village and opened later that Summer It consists of three interconnected residential towers an office tower administration building and a gym 151 A 400 seat dining hall is available to all members of the Northeastern community as well as the public 152 Lightview was launched in 2019 which was Boston s first developer led equity financed student housing project built and financed by American Campus Communities exclusively for Northeastern students The building is 20 stories tall and includes a fitness area as well as social and recreational spaces 153 The following buildings make up the South Campus Residential buildings Davenport Commons A 2000 Davenport Commons B 2000 780 Columbus Avenue 2001 converted lofts formerly South End Auto Supply 768 Columbus Avenue faculty graduate students 10 Coventry 2005 International Village 2009 LightView Apartments 2019 Administrative buildings Columbus Place 1997 Renaissance Park International Village Office Building 2009 Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building 2017Athletic buildings Badger and Rosen Facility SquashBusters 2003 Library facilities Edit Northeastern University Libraries include the Snell Library and the John D O Bryant African American Institute Library The NU School of Law Library is separately administered by the NU School of Law 154 The Snell Library opened in 1990 at a cost of 35 million and contains 1 3 million volumes 136 The main library is open 24 hours a day allowing students to research or study at any time they wish 155 The Digital Media Design Studio within the library is a collaborative and interdisciplinary learning environment for creating course related multimedia presentations projects and portfolios The library is home to the Favat Collection a current collection of children s literature and K 12 curriculum resources instructional materials and related information to support courses offered by the School of Education It contains three computer labs operated by NU Information Services Two are available to all NU students faculty and staff the other is a teaching lab The Snell Library is also home to the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections department which includes the Benjamin LaGuer papers collection The Special Collections focus on records of Boston area community based organizations that are concerned with social justice issues 156 The NU Libraries received federal depository designation in 1963 136 As a selective depository the Libraries receive 45 of the federal publication series available to depository libraries In June 2016 the library staff adopted an open access policy to make its members professional research publicly accessible online 157 Dining Facilities Inside the International Village Dining Hall at Northeastern University Northeastern features two dining halls with buffet style offerings These include the Levine Marketplace at Stetson East and International Village Dining at the International village residence hall on the southern portion of campus Both halls allow students to gain access either by cashing in a meal pass stored on their Husky Card or purchasing access at the door using a credit card Once inside students are able to eat as much food as they please before leaving 158 Spiritual Life Center and Sacred Space Edit Within the urban environment that characterizes the campus as a whole NU has carved out a quiet peaceful space in the centrally located Ell Building for the Spiritual Life Center s Sacred Space The nondenominational Sacred Space the center s main assembly hall can be configured with carpets mats or chairs It has a distinctive ceiling consisting of 3 hanging domes made of overlapping aluminum tiles with an origami like effect warm wood floors and accents and glass paneled walls that lean outward slightly their shape and material giving a sense of openness and volume to the space Faucets for ablution are available in a flanking antechamber and the center also contains a smaller meeting space and library 159 The Sacred Space opened in 1998 The architects Office dA Nader Tehrani amp Monica Ponce de Leon received the 2002 Harleston Parker Medal from the Boston Society of Architects for the design 160 Network campuses Edit Photo of Northeastern University satellite campus in Seattle Washington In addition to Northeastern s main Boston campus the university operates a number of satellite locations in Massachusetts including the George J Kostas Research Institute in Burlington a Financial District campus in the Hilton Hotel near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston a Dedham Campus in Dedham and a Marine Science Center in Nahant 161 The Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security which opened in 2011 contains the Laboratory for Structural Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Systems STReSS Laboratory The laboratory is equipped to test full scale and large scale structural systems and materials to failure so as to explore the development of new strategies for designing simulating and sensing structural and infrastructure systems 162 The university has also launched a number of full service remote network campuses in North America including in Charlotte North Carolina in October 2011 Seattle in January 2013 San Jose California in March 2015 Toronto in 2016 and Vancouver British Columbia in 2019 In January 2020 Northeastern announced that it was opening the Roux Institute in Portland Maine a new research institute focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning in digital and life sciences 163 The decision came after Northeastern was selected for a 100 million donation by David Roux in hopes of turning the city into a new tech hub and in an attempt to spark economic growth in the region 164 More recently the university has continued to focus on global expansion In late 2018 Northeastern announced the acquisition of the New College of the Humanities a small private London based college founded by the philosopher A C Grayling The move was seen as unorthodox as most U S colleges have typically chosen to build new campus branches abroad rather than purchasing existing ones 165 166 In June 2021 Northeastern and Mills College in Oakland California announced plans for a merger 167 168 Under the plans the liberal arts college which had financial troubles was renamed Mills College at Northeastern University when the merger became effective on July 1 2022 169 Student organizations Edit Northeastern Huskies logo Northeastern University offers students the opportunity to join various ethnic cultural and political organizations along with numerous honor societies special interest groups fraternities and sororities Northeastern has more than 16 varsity teams competing in the NCAA over 30 club sports teams and over 400 student clubs and organizations Among the student run organizations are Resident Student Association RSA Student Government Association SGA The Huntington News Northeastern University Television NUTV Fraternity and Sorority Life FSL Social Justice Resource Center SJRC and the Council for University Programs CUP organize activities for Northeastern students as well as the surrounding community 170 Northeastern hosts six student run a cappella groups on campus three mixed ensembles Distilled Harmony The Downbeats and The Nor easters two treble ensembles Pitch Please and Treble on Huntington and one TTBB ensemble UniSons All groups regularly compete in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella ICCA The Nor easters have performed at ICCA finals in New York City three times and won the ICCA title in 2013 and 2017 Pitch Please competed at ICCA finals in 2019 171 In 2020 The A Cappella Archive ranked The Nor easters and Pitch Please at 3 and 22 out of all ICCA competing groups 172 Athletics Edit Main article Northeastern Huskies Since 1927 Northeastern University s intercollegiate athletic teams have been known as the Huskies 173 Prior to 1927 Northeastern had no official mascot A committee was formed to choose a mascot and members eventually settled on the Siberian Husky In February 1927 a pup was selected from legendary Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race competitor Leonhard Seppala s kennel in Poland Springs Maine On March 4 1927 King Husky I arrived at Northeastern in a campus celebration for which classes were canceled Since then live mascots have been a Siberian Husky breed but after losing two mascots in three months in the early 1970s and after upheaval due to having live canine mascots the university s administration was reluctant to continue the live mascot tradition In 2005 the university resumed the live mascot tradition the current live mascot is named Moses 174 The university s official costumed mascot is Paws The university s official colors are Northeastern red and black with white often used as an alternate color The university fight song All Hail Northeastern was composed by Charles A Pethybridge class of 1932 175 Since 2005 14 of 18 Northeastern varsity sports teams primarily compete in NCAA Division I s Colonial Athletic Association CAA 176 Northeastern maintains crosstown athletic rivalries primarily with Boston University Harvard University and Boston College It also regularly competes against in state rival University of Massachusetts at Amherst During its first decades Northeastern initially had seven athletics teams basketball cross country indoor track outdoor track crew and football 110 It has since expanded to more than 16 varsity teams Northeastern sponsors the following sports teams 176 M Baseball M W Basketball M W Cross country W Field hockey M W Ice hockey in Hockey East M W Rowing in Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges and Eastern Association of Women s Rowing Colleges M W Soccer W Swimming and diving M W Track and field W VolleyballThe baseball soccer lacrosse and rugby teams compete at Parsons Field a multipurpose facility located in Brookline a mile and a half from the campus The field s baseball diamond was named Friedman Diamond in 1988 The field hockey team along with the Huskies track and field teams compete at a sports complex about 10 miles 16 km away from campus in Dedham 177 Matthews Arena which opened 1910 is home to the hockey and basketball programs The 4 666 seat arena is located close to campus just off Massachusetts Avenue It is considered the world s oldest multi purpose athletic building Henderson Boathouse is home to the Huskies men s amp women s rowing squads The Henderson Boathouse is located on the Charles River near Soldiers Field Road in Allston The university also maintains the Cabot Physical Education Center which opened in 1954 and includes a basketball court an indoor track and natatorium the 10 755 square feet 999 2 m2 Gries Center for Sports Medicine and Performance Center a squash facility and the William E Carter Playground a renovated community park on Columbus Avenue 178 The baseball team was founded in 1921 and has since competed in one College World Series and played in the NCAA regionals seven times 176 It regularly competes in the Baseball Beanpot a tournament contested annually between Boston College Boston University Harvard University Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst It has won the tournament six times The history of the men s basketball team dates back to its first season in 1920 21 In its first year in the CAA the team finished in 6th place out of 12 teams and advanced to the semifinals of the conference tournament The CAA proved to be a competitive conference in the 2006 NCAA basketball tournament as George Mason University advanced to the Final Four The women s basketball program began in 1966 In 2007 its second year in the CAA the women s track team captured the conference championship while the volleyball team finished second The women s basketball team won 10 more games in 2008 than the previous year the biggest one year turnaround in the CAA and advanced to the tournament quarterfinals citation needed The Northeastern crew team consistently ranks as one of the top 10 teams in the nation 179 In the 2008 National Championship the team made the Grand Finals and placed fourth behind University of Wisconsin Madison University of Washington and University of California Berkeley while defeating Brown University Princeton University University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University 180 In 2009 Northeastern eliminated its 74 year old football program 181 From 1933 to 2009 the Northeastern Huskies football program s all time record was 290 365 17 444 it produced 20 All Americans and won the 2002 Atlantic 10 Conference championship 182 Citing sparse attendance numerous losing seasons and the expense to renovate Parsons Field to an acceptable standard the university s Board of Trustees voted on November 20 2009 to end the football program According to President Joseph Aoun Leadership requires that we make these choices This decision allows us to focus on our existing athletic programs 183 In addition to intercollegiate athletics Northeastern offers 40 club sports including sailing judo rugby lacrosse Olympic Style taekwondo alpine skiing squash cycling and ultimate Frisbee In 2005 the women s rugby team finished third in the nation in Division II while in the same year the men s rugby team won the largest annual tournament in the United States Recently the women s rugby team competed and placed 11th at the Collegiate Rugby Championship The men s lacrosse team began the 2008 season ranked in the Top 10 nationally The men s and women s squash team finished the 2008 season ranked in the Top 20 nationally In the 2008 09 academic year the Northeastern Club Field Hockey and Women s Basketball teams won their respective National Championships From 2007 to 2009 the Northeastern Club Baseball team won three straight New England Club Baseball Association championships 184 The Club Taekwondo team placed 1st overall in Division II for the 2018 19 Season in the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference 185 On May 25 2010 the club baseball team defeated Penn State to win the National Club Baseball Association Division II World Series and the national championship 186 Some notable athletes have competed for Northeastern s athletic teams Dan Ross played football at Northeastern long before setting the Super Bowl record for receptions in a game Reggie Lewis still holds the men s basketball career scoring record Jose Barea played point guard for the Huskies and averaged 21 points 4 4 rebounds 8 4 assists per game as a senior Barea was signed by the Dallas Mavericks in 2006 Carlos Pena was named Major League Baseball s American League Comeback Player of the Year in 2007 and an AL Gold Glove winner in 2008 The U S Olympic women s ice hockey teams have included Northeastern alumni Shelley Looney and Chanda Gunn citation needed Ice hockey Edit Ice hockey has been one of Northeastern s most prominent athletic programs The men s and women s hockey teams compete in the Hockey East conference During the 2007 08 season the men s team ranked as high at 7 in the country and held the top spot in the conference before finishing the season in sixth place in Hockey East Both teams also participate in the annual ice hockey Beanpot tournament between the Boston area s four major college hockey schools Northeastern s men s team has won the annual event 6 times in its 56 year history while the women s team has captured the Beanpot 14 times During the 2008 09 season the men s team ranked as high as 3rd in the nation and held the top spot in Hockey East until the last weekend of the season the team made the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1994 the Beanpot championship game for the first time since 2004 and goalie Brad Thiessen made the Hobey Hat Trick only the second Northeastern player to do so Northeastern won the 2018 Beanpot championship by defeating Boston College 3 0 in the first match and defeating Boston University 5 2 in the final match The victory came after Northeastern attained the highest placement in the 2017 2018 standings of the Beanpot competitors Northeastern defeated Boston College 4 2 to win the 2019 Beanpot and defeated Boston University 5 4 to win the 2020 Beanpot 187 In 2020 Northeastern beat Boston University 5 4 in overtime to win the Beanpot for the third year in a row 188 The Beanpot also presents two awards to individual players One is for the most valuable player and one is to the best goalie determined by best save percentage The second award is named the Eberly award after Glen and Dan Eberly who were goalies at Northeastern and Boston University In addition to winning the Beanpot title Northeastern took home both awards with the award for most valuable player being presented to Adam Gaudette and the Eberly Award being presented to Cayden Primeau who had a save percentage of 974 making him the goalie with second highest save percentage to win the award in the 44 years the award has been given 189 Traditions Edit Underwear Undie Run Edit Started in 2005 the Underwear Run is a Northeastern sponsored event around fall midterm season in which students strip down to their underwear and run a track around campus and near parts of the city The Northeastern University Police Department NUPD supervises the event to maintain the flow of traffic through the city Students have described it as a liberating experience that brings a sense of community and builds school spirit 190 Though the event was officially cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID 19 concerns it was unofficially organized by students in fall of 2021 191 Husky Hunt Edit Organized by the Resident Student Association Husky Hunt is a 24 hour city wide scavenger hunt that has 50 teams of students roaming around the Greater Boston area in search of locations that correspond to clues games puzzles and riddles 192 The scavenger hunt starts with a preliminary qualifying quiz of which only 1 3 of the total group of participating teams progress to the hunt Prizes like iPads and Beats headphones are given to the highest scoring teams 193 Notable alumni and faculty EditMain article List of Northeastern University people Northeastern University has more than 275 000 living alumni based in over 180 countries around the world 194 Many alumni have distinguished themselves in a wide range of endeavors They include Nikesh Arora former senior VP amp Chief Business Officer of Google and CEO of Palo Alto Networks activist short seller Andrew Left professional basketball player Jose Juan Barea former Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke investigative journalist and Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award recipient Russ Conway former Massachusetts U S Senator Mo Cowan Saturday Night Live original cast member and actress Jane Curtin marathon runner Beatie Deutsch former United States Ambassador to Ireland Richard Egan filmmaker musician and writer Michael J Epstein Napster co founder Shawn Fanning 10th Archivist of the United States David Ferriero musician and video game developer Toby Fox musician John Geils Webby Award honored media producer Alan Catello Grazioso electronic dance music producer RL Grime New Hampshire governor and U S Senator Maggie Hassan Massachusetts Governor elect Maura Healey Academy Award nominated director and screenwriter Courtney Hunt Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Gregory Jarvis fashion model and actress Beverly Johnson Amin Khoury founder of B E Aerospace and CEO of KLX Energy Services Holdings U S Olympian bobsled and silver medalist Steven Langton University at Buffalo neurosurgery professor Elad Levy professional basketball player Reggie Lewis college president Thomas Michael McGovern former NPR co host of Car Talk Tom Magliozzi actor David Marciano EMC Corporation co founder Roger Marino CEO and Souq com co founder Ronaldo Mouchawar comedian Patrice O Neal Washington D C politician Oye Owolewa billionaire businessman James Pallotta computer scientist and researcher Andrea Grimes Parker former Rhode Island U S Senator and governor John O Pastore professional baseball player Carlos Pena Boston Dynamics CEO and founder Marc Raibert National Football League All Pro Dan Ross filmmaker Bettina Santo Domingo Twitter co founder Biz Stone actor Vaughn Taylor world champion surfer Shaun Tomson television amp radio talk show host Wendy Williams famous former Northeastern Huskies men s ice hockey players Devon Levi Jamie Oleksiak Josh Manson Adam Gaudette Anthony Bitetto Zach Aston Reese Don McKenney among others and professional racing driver Reema Juffali Nikesh AroraCEO of Palo Alto Networks and former senior executive at Google Maggie HassanUnited States Senator and former Governor of New Hampshire J Geilsmusician and leader of The J Geils Band Mo Cowanformer United States Senator from Massachusetts Gregory Jarvisastronaut on Space Shuttle Challenger Jeff Clarkeformer CEO of Kodak John Pastoreformer United States Senator from Rhode Island Beverly Johnsonfashion model and actress 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