Enrollment
Full-time Undergraduate Admission, Fall 2025
- 105,256
- Applications
- 5,920
- Acceptances
- 5.62%
- Acceptance rate
- 1472
- Mean SAT score, enrolled freshmen
Enrollment, Fall 2025
|
Undergraduate Full-Time | Co-op |
Undergraduate Part-Time | Co-op |
Total |
Graduate Full-Time | Co-op |
Graduate Part-Time | Co-op |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouvé College of Health Sciences | 2,138 | 390 | 0 | 0 | 2,528 | 1,686 | 81 | 392 | 0 | 2,159 |
| College of Arts, Media and Design | 1,139 | 288 | 0 | 0 | 1,427 | 353 | 12 | 35 | 0 | 400 |
| College of Engineering | 2,926 | 939 | 1 | 0 | 3,866 | 4,159 | 478 | 402 | 2 | 5,041 |
| College of Professional Studies | 0 | 0 | 1,351 | 0 | 1,351 | 0 | 0 | 4,679 | 281 | 4,960 |
| College of Science | 3,128 | 852 | 0 | 0 | 3,980 | 1,456 | 136 | 219 | 7 | 1,818 |
| College of Social Sciences and Humanities | 1,673 | 484 | 0 | 0 | 2,157 | 639 | 26 | 131 | 3 | 799 |
| D’Amore-McKim School of Business | 4,809 | 1,242 | 0 | 0 | 6,051 | 586 | 20 | 938 | 1 | 1,545 |
| Khoury College of Computer Sciences | 2,649 | 889 | 0 | 0 | 3,538 | 3,776 | 358 | 164 | 1 | 4,299 |
| School of Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 772 | 159 | 53 | 1 | 985 |
| University Programs | 335 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 335 | 26 | 0 | 102 | 0 | 128 |
| Totals | 18,797 | 5,084 | 1,352 | 0 | 25,233 | 13,453 | 1,270 | 7,115 | 296 | 22,134 |
+ The “Co-op” column refers to the number of students in each college enrolled in our cooperative education program as of Fall 2025.
Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates
- 96.7%
- Freshman retention (Fall 2024 freshmen)
- 90.7%
- Six-year graduation rate (Fall 2019 cohort)
Financial Aid, AY 2024–2025
- $349,090,934
- Undergraduate scholarships and grants (university-provided)
Costs, AY 2025–2026
- $69,289
- Tuition and fees
- $22,048
- Room and board
Experiential Learning
Northeastern integrates global experience into learning at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. In addition to the university’s signature cooperative education program, experiential opportunities include research, service, global study, and clubs and activities.
- 339
- Undergraduate Majors (Total)
- 110
- Single Majors
Highest-growth single majors:
- Business Administration
- Computer Science
- Health Science
- 229
- Combined majors
Highest-growth combined majors:
- Business Administration/Data Science
- Business Administration/Economics
- Business Administration/Computer Science
Cooperative Education
2024–2025
- 9,579
- Undergraduate Placements
- 3,956
- Graduate Placements
- 3,903
- Employers globally
+ 93% of the graduating class of 2024–25 participated in co-op.
Global Learning
2024–2025
- 3,831 undergraduate students had a global experience, in one of 74 countries
- 418 undergraduate students participated in co-op abroad in 55 countries
- 149 countries are represented in Northeastern’s student body
Advanced Learning
- 38 doctoral programs
- 261 professional doctorate, masters, and certificate programs (in class, online, and in hybrid formats)
Campus Life
- 625
- Student clubs and organizations
- 18
- Varsity sports
- 64
- Club sports
Degrees Conferred
2024–2025
- 289
- Doctorate—PhD
- 214
- Juris Doctor
- 409
- Professional doctorate
- 9,509
- Master’s degrees
- 6,560
- Bachelor’s degrees
- 35
- Post-master’s certificates
Student Demographics
Enrollment by gender and race/ethnicity, Fall 2025
| Undergraduate | Graduate | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female | Male | Unknown | Total | Female | Male | Unknown | Total | |
| International | 1,414 | 1,743 | 1 | 3,158 | 5,438 | 7,049 | 32 | 12,519 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1,611 | 1,031 | 5 | 2,647 | 561 | 336 | 8 | 905 |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 12 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Asian | 3,340 | 2,627 | 6 | 5,973 | 898 | 661 | 12 | 1,571 |
| Black or African American | 825 | 417 | 1 | 1,243 | 470 | 241 | 2 | 713 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 10 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| White | 5,514 | 4,139 | 20 | 9,673 | 2,853 | 1,915 | 45 | 4,813 |
| Two or more races | 940 | 674 | 4 | 1,618 | 295 | 201 | 4 | 500 |
| Race and ethnicity unknown | 520 | 364 | 4 | 888 | 720 | 366 | 19 | 1,105 |
| Total | 14,186 | 11,006 | 41 | 25,233 | 11,239 | 10,773 | 122 | 22,134 |
+ Note: UG and GR Fall Enrollment excludes non-degree seeking students.
Use-inspired Research
Our research enterprise is solutions-oriented and spans the world, focusing on interdisciplinary challenges in health, security, and sustainability.
- $267.1M in research funding, 2024–2025
Research Institutes
- Global Resilience Institute (GRI)
- Barnett Institute for Chemical and Biological Analysis
- Coastal Sustainability Institute
- Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute
- Defense Industrial Base Institute (DIBI)
- Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health
- Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence (IEAI)
- Institute for Experiential Robotics (IER)
- Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI)
- Institute for Mechanobiology (IfM)
- Institute for Nanosystems Innovation (NanoSI)
- Kostas Research Institute (KRI)
- Network Science Institute (NetSI)
- Quantum Materials and Sensing Institute (QMSI)
- The Mills Institute
+ Northeastern is an R1 research university, a designation by the Carnegie Classification system for U.S. universities with the highest level of research activity.
Human Resources
Fall 2025
- 3,610
- Faculty
- 4,427
- Staff
- 460
- Research Scientists
Community of Support
- 365,000+
- Alumni
- 187
- Alumni countries
- 67
- Alumni Communities Worldwide
- $130.2M
- Total giving, FY 2025
Finances, FY 2025
- $2.39B
- Expenses, FY 2025
- $2.102B
- Endowment market value, FY 2025
+ Northeastern’s bond rating from Moody’s Investors Service is A1, with a stable outlook.
Leadership
President and Officers
Joseph E. Aoun
President
Thomas Sheahan
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (interim)
Kenneth Henderson
Chancellor and Senior Vice President for Learning
Michael Armini
Senior Vice President for External Affairs
Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray
Senior Vice President for University Advancement
Mary Ludden
Senior Vice President for Global Network and Strategic Initiatives
Thomas Nedell
Senior Vice President for Finance and Treasurer
Mary B. Strother
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Academic Deans
Jared Auclair
College of Professional Studies
James Hackney
School of Law
Jerome Hajjar
College of Engineering (interim)
R. Benjamin Knapp
College of Arts, Media and Design
Beth D. Kochly
Mills College at Northeastern
Elizabeth Mynatt
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Carmen Sceppa
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Emery Trahan
D’Amore-McKim School of Business (interim)
Kellee Tsai
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Mark Williams
College of Science