Northeastern University

Overview

Northeastern University University

Northeastern University (NEU) is a private research university situated in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Founded in 1898, NEU is known as among the greenest universities in the United States and the second internationally. It is also classified as an A- university for its sustainable and environmental efforts and programs. Likewise, the university is among the top universities in engineering and technology, and life sciences.

Northeastern University Key Statistics

NEU has seven colleges and two schools with 28 departments, 10 schools, and 11 institutes and centers. These academic units include the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, College of Professional Studies, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, and the College of Arts, Media, and Design.

It offers more than 233 undergraduate, 222 master’s, and 17 doctorate degree programs, including nine graduate certificate courses.

The university has more than 27,600 students. There are 19,000 undergraduates as well as 8,500 postgraduates and graduates. Likewise, about 37% of the student population are students from 121 countries worldwide. It houses around 1,970 faculty staff with a student-faculty ratio of 14:1 and around 1,100 administrative and support staff.

Other Northeastern University key statistics include its full-service libraries that hold more than 1.3 million volumes of books. They also provide access to more than 80,000 electronic journals and over 500,000 e-books.

Northeastern University Research

NEU is one of the universities in the US with very high research activity and output categorized as “R1: Doctoral Universities.” It has an average external research funding of about $180.2 million. Likewise, it has access and opportunities for research collaborations in more than 92 countries and over 2,900 corporate partners worldwide.

The university’s top three research fields are computer science, medicine, and physics. Its researchers have been published in major international journals like The Lancet, Science, and Nature. Northeastern University research teams get invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences like the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision, and Internet Measurement Conference.

The most cited research publication of Northeastern University is Agostinelli et al.’s (2003) “Geant4—a simulation toolkit,” published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. This scholarly output has so far received a total of 32,455 citations.

The university’s second most cited scholarly output is Ng et al.’s (2014) “Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013,” published in The Lancet. A total of 11,280 articles, books, and other publications have cited this scholarly output to date.

The third most cited publication from Northeastern University is Proakis and Manolakis’ (1992) book, Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms, and Applications. It has generated a total of 11,123 citations so far.

NEU has nine interdisciplinary research areas, including computer and information sciences, engineering and technology, and health sciences. It also has around 11 research institutes and 36 research centers. These include the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, the Center for Drug Discovery, and the Center for Community Health Education Research and Service.