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DeKALB – NIU President Lisa Freeman announced at Wednesday’s University Council meeting that, barring any other issues, financial aid packages should be sent out to first-year students by the end of next week and to returning students within the next couple of weeks. Freeman gave a presentation about NIU’s budget along with its deficit and...

DeKALB – The Huskie Pledge is raising its eligibility requirements to require a gross family income of $75,000 to $100,000 annually starting in the 2024-2025 school year. AIM High Huskie Pledge is a program for Illinois high school seniors that covers their entire tuition their freshman year at NIU. AIM High is an Illinois state...

Officials at DeKalb’s Northern Illinois University have dramatically expanded a program that ensures qualifying students will have their tuition and general...

College rankings have a bad reputation for not being representative of a university’s physical and social attributes. Students should use college rankings as a factor to make college decisions; however, they should not be everything.  By mainly focusing on the academic aspects of universities, college rankings fail to incorporate the non-academic parts of campus. Additionally,...

Freshman enrollment declined nearly 10 percent from last fall but Northern Illinois University’s overall student count remained stable, according to figures released on Sept. 14. NIU announced a enrollment of 15,504 on the 10th day of classes — the traditional benchmark date — compared to 15,649 last fall. The difference was less than 1 percent

The new Student-facing financial aid counseling unit helps students to understand their loans and their financial situations.

NIU released a new enrollment plan to help guide retention and enrollment efforts through 2025.

Vice President of Enrollment collaborated with SGA to revise the Strategic Enrollment Plan to focus more on students and campus-wide issues.

DeKALB— Total enrollment has decreased by 4% from the Spring 2021 semester, according to 10-day enrollment data. The enrollment numbers reflected a familiar trend that NIU and other schools across the country have seen since the pandemic hit. There are a total of 14,601 students enrolled at NIU for the Spring 2022 semester, 615 fewer...

(The Center Square) – In what was expected to be a bounce back year for college enrollment in Illinois, more students opted out. According to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, undergradua...