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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