Northern Illinois University

Location

The University of Northern Illinois is located in the Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, Illinois, 4 minutes away from Downtown DeKalb and 10 minutes away from the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. Its setting is suburban, since the Lincoln Hwy goes all the way to downtown, in the entire route you could find different famous restaurants like Taco BELL, IHOP, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle Mexican Grill and coffee shops like Starbucks and The House Café. Also, for students not wanting to go far to do their groceries they have La Salsa Food Inc and ALDI a few minutes away from campus.

Campus

The campus size of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb is 756 acres with approximately 60 academic major buildings with an amazing and historical architecture including the castle-like Altgeld Hall, a masterpiece which was designed to function as an auditorium, an art museum, a ballroom and on the level below the auditorium a computer classroom. The campus offers some services like cleaning services, furniture repair, health insurance, Child Care Center and others services to provide students everything they need on a daily basis. Also, the university counts with a security department with 55 officers to keep the campus safe.

Residing Options

The Northern University offers many options for on-campus housing including the New Residence Hall, the Gilbert Hall, the Grant Towers, the Stevenson Towers, the Neptune Hall and The Northern view that is an on-campus apartment alternative mostly rented by graduate students or students older than 20 years old. Students don't need to do a research to know which hall is best for them because the Housing and Residential Service will provide any information to help students find a suitable place. However, for students who like a little more independence, there are a wide variety of nice off-campus residences just a few blocks away from the University.

Faculty

The NIU is nationally accredited for meeting the highest standards of academic quality and rigor in popular programs including business, health and social sciences and engineering. Also, no matter what major the students are coursing they can apply to the university's Research Rookies Program, which is a program that connect students from every year and even first-semester transfer students with a number of members of a faculty in their field of interest to work in small-scale research projects, that are really great for students to learn and develop new skills that they can use in the future.