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Northwestern University

Basic Information

Type Private
Location Evanston, IL
Population 7,500,000
Map of the United States

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 8,960
Men / Women 46% / 54%
White 37%
Asian 19%
Hispanic 12%
International 12%
Black 7%
Mixed 6%
Native American 0%

Academics

Undergraduate Degrees
Humanities & Social Sciences 32%
Engineering, Computing & Math 31%
Life & Natural Sciences 14%
Arts 12%
Business & Economics 12%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $69,375
Est. Cost of Attendance $91,250
10-Year ROI $289,000
ROI Percentile 97th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 98%
4-Year Graduation Rate 83%
6-Year Graduation Rate 95%
Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Weather

Comfortable Days 105 (50th pctl)
Sunshine Hours 2,508 (33th pctl)
Days Without Precipitation 241 (38th pctl)
Muggyness Nice

Admissions

Acceptance Rate 7%
Yield (Unbound) 35%
Early Decision Nov 1
Regular Decision Jan 3

Research

Research Level R1
Expenditure
Life & Natural Sciences $1,015M #22
Engineering, Computing & Math $139M #46
Humanities & Social Sciences $29M #58
Graduate Degrees
Engineering, Computing & Math 180 #26
Humanities & Social Sciences 467 #28
Life & Natural Sciences 422 #65

Honors College

Standardized Tests

Test Scores

Test Policy test_optional
Submitted Test Scores 69%
SAT Range 1,510 – 1,570
ACT Range 33 – 35

Schools & Majors

Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
Bienen School of Music 83 51% / 49% 1% $48,822
Jazz/Jazz Studies 1 100% / 0% 0% $48,822
Keyboard Instruments 6 67% / 33% 17% $48,822
Music 14 +18 71% / 29% 0% $48,822
Music Composition 3 0% / 100% 0% $48,822
Music Education 7 +2 43% / 57% 0%
Music Performance 25 +2 52% / 48% 0% $48,822
Musicology and Ethnomusicology 1 0% / 100% 0% $48,822
Stringed Instruments 14 36% / 64% 0% $48,822
Voice and Opera 12 +3 50% / 50% 0% $48,822
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science 348 60% / 40% 15% $124,886
Biomedical Engineering 65 43% / 57% 11% $131,231
Chemical Engineering 28 57% / 43% 25% $121,374
Civil and Environmental Engineering 21 62% / 38% 14%
Computer Engineering 21 76% / 24% 19% $140,300
Electrical Engineering 21 76% / 24% 10%
Engineering 3 67% / 33% 67%
Environmental Engineering 10 40% / 60% 0%
Industrial Engineering 65 68% / 32% 17% $138,693
Manufacturing and Design Engineering 16 38% / 62% 12%
Materials Engineering 19 53% / 47% 32%
Mechanical Engineering 78 68% / 32% 10% $105,206
Materials Science 1 +2 0% / 100% 100%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications 165 28% / 72% 5% $51,375
Journalism 165 28% / 72% 5% $51,375
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
School of Communication 251 28% / 72% 7% $65,694
Communication Sciences and Disorders 12 25% / 75% 0% $70,833
Communication Studies 77 19% / 81% 12% $98,334
Dance 3 0% / 100% 0%
Performance Studies 91 35% / 65% 3% $48,100
Radio, Television, and Film 68 31% / 69% 9% $51,375
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
School of Education and Social Policy 139 36% / 64% 3% $100,001
Learning and Organizational Change 13 38% / 62% 0%
Human Development and Social Policy 19 21% / 79% 0%
Public Policy Analysis 40 20% / 80% 2% $62,591
Social Policy 61 51% / 49% 5% $124,533
Learning Sciences 4 25% / 75% 0%
Secondary Education and Teaching 2 50% / 50% 0%
Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl 5yr Earn
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 1,173 48% / 52% 11% $110,472
Applied Mathematics 11 36% / 64% 18%
Computer Science 120 77% / 23% 17% $157,714
Computer and Information Sciences
Data Science 21 +33 29% / 71% 19%
Data Science and Society 110 +17 63% / 37% 9% $141,136
Mathematics 25 +32 72% / 28% 24% $120,718
Physics and Astronomy 17 +2 65% / 35% 18%
Statistics 19 +20 47% / 53% 16%
Biological Sciences 137 +21 34% / 66% 6% $76,781
Chemistry 14 +2 50% / 50% 14% $163,104
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 +1 100% / 0% 0%
Environmental Sciences 16 +8 38% / 62% 6%
Neuroscience 110 +16 31% / 69% 5%
Economics 3 67% / 33% 0% $126,908
Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences 238 +63 61% / 39% 16% $126,908
African-American/Black Studies 1 +1 0% / 100% 0%
American Studies 3 +4 0% / 100% 0%
Anthropology 11 +3 18% / 82% 9%
Asian American Studies 1 +2 0% / 100% 0%
Classical Languages 1 +5 100% / 0% 0%
Cognitive Science 32 +18 31% / 69% 16% $84,856
Comparative Literature 2 +5 100% / 0% 0%
Creative Writing
English 22 +24 18% / 82% 0% $61,760
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies 2 +6 50% / 50% 0%
French 3 +4 0% / 100% 0%
German 1 0% / 100% 0%
History 24 +29 58% / 42% 8% $70,943
Humanities/Humanistic Studies 1 0% / 100% 0% $94,412
Integrated Science 5 40% / 60% 20%
Latina and Latino Studies 4 50% / 50% 25%
Legal Studies 5 +8 20% / 80% 0%
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies 2 +4 50% / 50% 0% $94,412
Linguistics 6 +3 67% / 33% 17%
Near and Middle Eastern Studies 2 50% / 50% 0%
Philosophy 9 +4 67% / 33% 0%
Political Science 68 +35 50% / 50% 4% $76,897
Psychology
Psychology 93 +62 24% / 76% 9% $71,947
Religious Studies 1 +3 0% / 100% 0%
Slavic Languages 1 +1 100% / 0% 0%
Social Sciences 8 0% / 100% 0%
Sociology 12 +8 33% / 67% 0% $58,319
Spanish 3 0% / 100% 0%
Art History 6 +4 17% / 83% 0%
Art Theory and Practice 1 +5 0% / 100% 0%

Rankings

Academics

Future Patagonia Vest Owners Top Investment Banking Feeders
Will Network for a Superday
Future Ambulance Chasers Top Law School Feeders
Future SCOTUS Clerks
Can't Hide Behind Your GPA SAT-required, Highest Medians
Above Average in High School is Not Enough

College Costs

We Marked It Up Just to Put It on Sale Highest List Price
Luxury Good

Prestige

Grandma Eyebrow Raisers Easy Brags for the Prestigious-Conscious
Is Everyone an Ivy+ Now?

Someone Like Me

Places, Please! Theater Participation
Theater Kid Generation

My Tribe

Call Your Mother! Most Jewish
Significant Community

Engineering, Computing & Math

Chat-GPT? Claude? I can do better. Artificial Intelligence
Soon Jumping on the AI Bandwagon...
No, I Can't Fix Your Printer Computer Science
AI Hype Riders & Lab Rats
The "I Understand Interstellar" Elite Physics & Astronomy
Particle Accelerators
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Equation Elegance
Pre-Med Hidding in Plain Sight Biomedical Engineering
Cutting Edge
It's Not About Molecules, It's About Pipes Chemical Engineering
Polymer Whisperers & Battery Bros
Playing House Civil Engineering
Bridge Builders
Half-CS, Half-EE, Full Depression Computer Engineering
What's a Solder?
Resistance Is Not Futile Electrical Engineering
Ohm My God
Regular Engineering Just Wasn't Hurting My Brain Enough Engineering Physics
Too Nerdy for the Engineers, Too Practical for the Physicists
Making Spreadsheets Go Brrrr Industrial & Systems Engineering
The Suits
Is It a Solid? Is It a Liquid? Yes. Materials Engineering
Atomic Architects
WD-40 & Duct Tape Mechanical Engineering & Robotics
Whiteboard-preferred

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
The Double Helix
Breaking Bad Chemistry
Pre-Med Darwinian Thunderdome
Rocks and Whales Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Fossil Hunters
Doomsday Prepping with Data Environmental Science
Carbon Neutral
Memorizing 206 Bones Human Biology
The Cadaver Club
Lord of the Petri Dish Microbiology & Immunology
Pathogen Punishers
Staring at a Gel Electrophoresis Until Our Eyes Bleed Molecular Biology & Genomics
Sequencing Squad
Action Potentials Neuroscience
Pre-Meds in Disguise
Talk About a Career Phonoaudiology
Voice Coaches Plus
Jocks R'US Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation
The Training Room

Business & Economics

PowerPoint Presentation Power Rankings Business Administration
We Don't Actually Offer Undergrad Business
Pivot Tables & Missing Pallets Business Analytics
Just-In-Time Jugglers
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
The "Chicago Boys" Free Market Fan Club
Move Fast, Break Tuition Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Future Founders
Wolf of Wall Street Prep Finance
Wait, I Majored in Econ?
Tik-Tok Generation Marketing
Brand Builders
Hard Hats & PowerPoints Power Rankings Technical Management
They Built An Entire School Around This Major

Humanities & Social Sciences

Professional Yapping Communication & Journalism
The "Our Alumni Control the Media" Mafia
Much Ado About Nothing English, Literature & Writing
Bookworm Elite
Smashing the Patriarchy 101 Gender Studies
Discourse Disruptors
Model UN Generation Government & Politics
Campaign Trail
Hindsight is 20/20 (And So is My Salary) History & Archaeology
Primary Source Hunters
The "Why Are We Here?" Support Group Philosophy & Ethics
Late Night Debaters
I Want To Understand Myself Psychology
DSM Superfans
Decolonizing the Curriculum Regional & Ethnic Studies
Cultural Cartographers
Everything is a Construct Sociology & Anthropology
The Deconstructors
Grammar Police Academy World Languages & Linguistics
Grammar Nerds

Education

Surviving PTA Karens General Education
Classroom Ready
Show Your Work, Then Teach It STEM Education
Math Whisperers

Arts

Explaining Splatters to Rich People Art History & Management
Arts Admin Powerhouses
Lights, Camera, Tuition Film
Hollywood Pipeline
Eight Hours of Scales Music
Recital Royalty
Theatre Kid Generation Performing Arts
Standing Ovation