Priorities - Office of the Chancellor at Northeastern

Expanding our global network

Northeastern is a global research university with an expanding network of campuses. Each location enhances mobility through experience-powered learning, research, and global connections. Programs are aligned with industry needs, designed to prepare students for in-demand careers.

Boston

Northeastern’s main campus is in Boston, a city rich in history and culture that is home to many world-leading colleges and universities. This hub of entrepreneurship and innovation in finance, healthcare, biomedicine, defense, and biotechnology is an ideal place to study and work in fields from the liberal arts to STEM.

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Charlotte

Established in 2011 as Northeastern’s first regional campus, this uptown location at the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets offers degrees and certificates in nursing, homeland security, health management, and other growing fields. Local industries include energy, financial services, and healthcare.

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London

NCH at Northeastern in London—formerly the New College of the Humanities—expands Northeastern’s liberal arts and humanics curricula. The campus welcomes first-year undergraduates to the Global Engagement Program, N.U.in, and Global Quest, and offers the Data, Ethics and Culture Semester to undergraduates in any year.

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San Francisco Bay Area

Northeastern has locations in San Francisco and in San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Surrounded by startups and mega-corporations, undergraduates, grad students, and working professionals prepare for in-demand fields from bioinformatics to computer science.

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Seattle

Northeastern in Seattle is located in this city’s South Lake Union neighborhood, a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship. Within two miles of Amazon, the Gates Foundation, and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, students explore fields from biotechnology and STEM to nonprofit management.

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Toronto

In North America’s fourth-largest city, Northeastern offers graduate degrees in cybersecurity, project management, and regulatory affairs for drugs, biologics, and medical devices. Toronto’s booming sectors include financial services, information technology, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing.

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Vancouver

Northeastern’s campus is located downtown in this fast-growing, tech-driven city, part of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor, an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest. Graduates of programs in project management, information systems, and computer science will help fill the region’s talent and diversity gaps.

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Undergraduates Abroad

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N.U.in Program

This program for first-semester students combines challenging academics with the transformational experience of living abroad.

Global Experience Office

This office—known as GEO—offers undergraduates opportunities to work and learn all over the world.

Innovation in lifelong learning

Today’s learners must be able to acquire knowledge anytime, anywhere, throughout their careers. Across Northeastern’s colleges and schools, and at every global campus, they pursue challenging work assignments on site and online while completing degree and pre-college programs, certificates, workshops, and corporate education programs co-designed with employers. Credits are modular and “stackable,” applicable toward degrees.

Pre-College Programs

With Northeastern faculty members in Boston or Seattle, talented high school students dive deeply into subjects that intrigue them.

Corporate Learning Partnerships

To help global companies stay competitive, Northeastern tailors programs and credentials, on site or online, for their employees.

Lifelong Learning

To adapt to constant change, learners can build knowledge and skills through degree programs, workshops, stackable certificates, and more.

Digital Learning

Northeastern maximizes learner mobility with online programs at all levels, from bachelor’s completion to professional doctorate.

Self-Authored Integrated Learning (SAIL)

SAIL is a digital platform that helps students capture, reflect on, and express their unique learning experiences.

Enrollment Management

This division oversees Northeastern’s strategies for recruiting, enrolling, and retaining learners at all degree levels.

Excellence in the
learner experience

Northeastern emphasizes quality in the student experience—in class, through experience-powered learning, and through research and creative expression. Residential life programs, student services, student-led clubs and organizations, and athletics are richly varied, designed to hone the individual’s interests and strengths while building a sense of community and connection.

Student Life

The university supports rich diversity of experiences and a community that celebrates wellness, integrity, and inclusivity.

Experiential Learning

For more than a century, Northeastern has shown that experience deepens learning like nothing else can.

Undergraduate Research

Students enjoy strong support for research and creative endeavors, from mentoring and funding to opportunities to share their work.

Athletics

Through sports and fitness programs, students hone skills like discipline, communication, teamwork, and leadership.

Employer Engagement and Career design

This office offers a suite of programs and advisors to connect learners with leading employers and career-shaping professional assignment.

Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research

Through research, innovation, workshops, and consultations, this center helps educators create transformative experiences for learners.