Hispanic Heritage Month kicked off with the annual Parade of Flags Sept. 18, a march starting at the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute and ending at Krentzman Quad with a block party. Students carried vibrant, diverse cultural flags through the parade, which they said...
Each year, Northeastern becomes more selective than the last; for the Class of 2028, its 5.2% acceptance rate to the Boston campus rivaled that of nearby Ivy League institutions Harvard University and Brown University.
The single-digit number — which also encompasses Early...
More than a year after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, the share of students who identify as Black enrolled in Northeastern University's class of 2028 dropped 35%, from 7.8% to 5.1%, compared to the class of 2027.
In the class of 2028,...
Annie Cayer, deputy campus editor
• August 25, 2024
Northeastern’s acceptance rate continued on its downward trend for the Class of 2028, dropping to a record low of 5.2% for the fall 2024 admissions cycle, according to a spokesperson for the university. This is the third year in a row the admit rate has been in the single-digits,...
After over 20 years of offering dining plans on a meals-per-week basis, Northeastern announced in June new dining plans that will offer a set number of meals per semester and mostly eliminate meal exchanges.
The overhauled dining plans — created from a collaboration between...
Before Northeastern students begin classes each fall, thousands of families await the inevitable: The semesterly email notification that their bill is ready. As that bill continues to climb, students wonder how their tuition dollars are being spent, and if their education is...
With semesterly housing rates approaching $10,000 per semester, Northeastern dorms are more than 25% pricier than they were 20 years ago, when accounting for inflation.
Off-campus housing isn’t much cheaper — a recent report ranked Northeastern the eighth most expensive...
Northeastern's ever-growing Boston campus started out small. The school, founded in 1898, began teaching classes out of the YMCA of Greater Boston on Huntington Avenue.
More than 125 years later, the campus occupies 67 acres of land, rapidly expanding over the last several...
When news broke May 29 that Northeastern had acquired Marymount Manhattan College, or MMC, in New York City, current MMC fourth-year acting major Abby Mulligan said her dad, who had just read about the merger in The New York Times, was the first to tell her.
“At first,...
Each year marks a new record number of students applying to Northeastern, making an institution that was once considered a “commuter school” a nationally-recognized university with a single-digit acceptance rate.
Since its founding in 1898, admission to Northeastern has...
After months of back-and-forth legal arguments, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled Northeastern engaged in unfair labor practices and violated federal law by refusing to recognize and bargain with a newly formed union of Northeastern University Police Department sergeants.
The...
As the Class of 2024 graduates flipped their tassels and walked the stage over the last several weeks, some students used graduation and commencement ceremonies as an opportunity to express their frustration and anger with Northeastern’s refusal to divest from military-industrial...
