Nearly all of our classes have fewer than 20 students and U.S. News and World Report ranked NLU fifth in the country for small undergraduate
class size.
NLU annually awards more than $3 million in merit and need based aid to undergraduate transfer students.
You can take dozens of courses—and earn six degrees online: B.S. in Management, B.S. in Management Information Systems, B.S. in Heath Care Leadership, the M.B.A., the M.Ed. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Curriculum and Instruction and the M.Ed. In Adult Education.
Graduate degrees from the National College of Education—recognized nationwide for teacher preparation and educational leadership. Fast-track undergraduate degrees in business, health care leadership and applied behavioral sciences. The largest non-clinical masters program in psychology in the state of Illinois.
What really surprised many NLU students is what they got from our faculty.
Encouragement. Support. Wisdom. Friendship. Counsel. Hope. Understanding. Inspiration. Practical applications. Personal attention.
Faculty who treat them as adults. Who are comfortable with diverse points of view. Who look at each student as an individual. Who expect to be challenged. Faculty who actually teach their classes. Who are good teachers. Who like teaching. Faculty who get it. NLU
We want to know what our graduates have been doing. Where you are now. What program you studied. What faculty member you remember. What friendships you started. And we want to hear what YOU got at NLU.
Tell us your story online.
Our students, graduates, faculty, and staff. On TV and the radio, on billboards and in newspapers.
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They've been talking about what they got at NLU for some time now. Go back and see what they've been saying. ![]()
IDS/NBC 2Susan Handler
AUSL and NLUDonald Feinstein
El Valor and NLUHerminia Alvarado
MBA Group SupportHerminia Alvarado
MBA Cohort ModelHerminia Alvarado
ABSNatiasha Exum
DeansMartha Casazza
Golden AppleDominic Belmonte
Latino Role ModelsMaribel Ireta
MBAHerminia Alvarado
Academic AdvisingTammy Broughton