Northern Illinois University Top Questions

My school has given me a great education and college experience.

Northern Illinois University is a great school filled with accepting people, great research opportunities for every major, and pleanty of clubs to keep you entertained through the year.

The professors are really helpful, however financial aid is really bad because they do not award students enough money. Getting help from financial aid is hard too because they are always buzy(or so they claim), especially on the phone. Food is average. It is somewhat diversed, but on the weekends the school is dead because there is no activities thus, everybody leaves.

An educational home away from home.

It means well and its full of people with greatness but it can still hurt someone looking for programs that it doesnt offer.

My school in one sentence is big, sperated, helpful, and about there business.

Friendly, fun, atheltic, diverse.

Most of the buildings are lovely on the outside, but ugly and cramped on the inside: this school is concerned more with image and money that anything else.

NIU is a school of opportunities, great education, and will prepare you for the future.

Northern Illinois University is a perfect school for students who live in Illinois and what to have a full college experience without being too far from home.

My school is very large, with a variety of different ethnicities, very involved, many clubs and activities and very welcoming.

RANDOM. NIU seems to pop up out of nowhere since the surrounding areas are fields. While on campus you have buildings ranging from super old (castles) to new (dont know the new dorm name). The layout of the buildings are poorly planned and can make getting around a pain at times.

My school is imperfectly perfect.

Great school on an island in a sea of corn. I found my department of study to be small and intimate. It worked well for me, since it was close enough to my home, and I could go home on the weekends to raid my mother's refrigerator and mow her humoungous lawn. The town is quaint and welcoming. I was offered full time work and a paid way through a master's program after I graduated, which I declined. In retrospect, I wish I would have taken the opportunity, but so is life.

Northern Illinois University is a school where I learned about the reality of life from the murder of a fellow freshman, two gunshot events, and various drug dealings throughout the duration of my stay, however the serious circumstances allowed me to focus on my future in hopes to improve the world from these mishappenings.

Northern Illinois University is a school that is close to home, relatively easy to afford, and offers a fairly decent education.

My school is very diverse.

My school is very spontaneous,liberated,free,determined,smart,openminded.

NIU is the ultimate college experience because you get a little of everything when you arrive on campus.

I think it's a typical US university that provides positive resources for its community.