Surrounding City at Northern Illinois University (StudentsReview ™)

Breakdown of “Surrounding City” at NIU

By Gender

Males	C
Females	C

By Major

Accounting	C-
Anthropology	B-
Art & Design Department	D
Athletics/Training	B-
Biology	C-
Business - Management and Administration	C
Communications	D+
Computer Science	C+
Criminal	C
Economics	B
Education	C-
Electrical Engineering	C
Engineering Department	D
English	C-
Finance	B+
Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc	D
Geography and Geosciences	C+
History/Histories (art history/etc.)	B
Industrial Operations Engineering	C+
Journalism	D
Kinesiology	B-
Language - French/Spanish/etc.	C
Mechanical Engineering	D
Meteorology	C-
Music - Performance	C
Music Education	A-
Nursing	D-
Nutrition	B+
Other	B-
Physical Therapy/Exercise Science	C-
Political Science	B-
Psychology	C-
Social Work	C
Sociology	C-
Undecided	F

Against similar schools

Surrounding City compared with similar schools in class.

Northern Illinois University
C
Average of All Schools
B-
Average of schools in class
B+
Harvard University
B+
Loyola University - Chicago
A-
University of California - Berkeley
B+
Stanford University
B-
University of Wisconsin - Madison
A-
University of Southern California
B+
Michigan State University
B+
F
A+

Surrounding City

“... While it is not exactly a huge city to live in, it does offer plenty of things to do ...Read full comment

“... Northern is indeed a commuter school; on weekends, a vast majority of the campus flees to the Chicagoland and city ...Read full comment

“... Personally, after two years of being here, I'm sick and tired of corn fields and a dead college atmosphere and looking towards a future in the...Read full comment

“... It has the problems of a big city with a fraction of the culture ...Read full comment

“... The proximity to the city is great and also a downfall bc the social scene cant measure up to other schools bc everyones gone ...Read full comment

“... Secondly, It's dangerous here; I feel safer in the city than here ...Read full comment

“... I came here from 1 of the chicago city colleges ...Read full comment

“... I figured that as a result of the Cole Hall shooting, the girl murdered right off campus, the foot ball player shot, and shooting near the dorm, ...Read full comment

“... Sometimes i feel as if NIU is to close to the city of Chicago, where crime is getting out of hand ...Read full comment

“... And heres another newsflash, unless you are in a big city, most of the colleges are surrounded my cornfields, especially in Illinois ...Read full comment

“... Its nice because the campus is not too far from the suburbs and the city ...Read full comment

“... While it is not exactly a huge city to live in, it does offer plenty of things to do ...Read full comment

“... But yeah city people tend to keep to themselves, suburbans keep to themselves, Asians/internationals keep to themselves and rural/conservatives k...Read full comment

“... Now, I might lose a lot of people around this point, but this needs to be mentioned because it is such a big part of the college and what it s...Read full comment

“... If you are a gang banger from the inner city who has just enough smarts to con a subsidized college education out of the system, then NIU is the...Read full comment

“... While it is not exactly a huge city to live in, it does offer plenty of things to do ...Read full comment

“... The surrounding city is HORRIBLE ...Read full comment

“Okay when it come to Northern Illinois I think majority of the faculty is nice. I am a freshmen here and so far the faculty is extremely nice and they...Read full comment

“... The city and university police had no idea who it was for weeks and the entire campus was on alert ...Read full comment

“... closest city (rockford) is a 45 minute drive and not at all nice ...Read full comment

“... Mostly Chicagoland people, inner city ghetto types and occasionally people you can related to ...Read full comment