Northwestern University
private university in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Facts
54 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- private university, private not-for-profit educational institution, research institute[18][19]
- Official website
- www.northwestern.edu[50]
- Short name
- NUas of 2026-10-21
where from?
- Record
- ror.org/000e0be47
- Edition
- 20261021 · as of 2026-10-21
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- Native label
- Northwestern University
- Official name
- Northwestern University
Status and dates
- Inception
- 1851[47]
- Replaces
- Evanston College for Ladies
Location
- Country
- United States[17]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 42.056°, -87.675°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Evanston, Cook County[15][16]
- Street address
- 633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, Illinois 60201 Evanston
Industry and activity
- Industry
- higher education[41]
Financials
- Employees
- 10k (2.5k–10k, n=3)[51]
- Total assets
- 19.2B (9.8B–19.4B, n=13)
- Total revenue
- 4.2B (2.3B–4.2B, n=13)
People
- Chairperson
- Morton O. Schapiro
Relations
- Child organization or unit
- Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University School of Communication, Bienen School of Music, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University Graduate School, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, Medill School of Journalism, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University in Qatar, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University Library Building Committee, Northwestern University Library Planning Committee[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
- Has part(s)
- Northwestern University Libraries, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, The Block Museum of Art[44][45][46]
- Member of
- Consortium of Social Science Associations, Shibboleth Consortium, arXiv, ORCID, Inc., Association of American Universities, Association of American Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Coalition for Networked Information, Center for Research Libraries, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, National Digital Stewardship Alliance, Council on Governmental Relations[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
More facts +31
- Academic calendar type
- academic quarter
- Admission rate
- +0.09
- Admission yield rate
- +0.52
- Area
- +971000
- Athletics program
- Northwestern Wildcats
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
- doctoral universities: very high research activity, majority graduate, research doctoral: comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school, four-year, large, primarily residential, arts & sciences plus professions, high graduate coexistence, four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in
- Count of students
- 20k (15k–22k, n=3)
- Described by source
- The New Student's Reference Work
- Different from
- Northwestern University
- Donations
- 500.4M (265.4M–625.7M, n=13)
- Endowment
- 15.0B (11.1B–15.0B, n=3)
- Has characteristic
- Governo Menabrea
- Image harvest run
- pdhero-20261109T023118Z
- Image last checked license
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Image unavailable reason
- no_pd_license
- Language used
- English
- League or competition
- pupa, Free Cinema[20][21]
- Mascot
- Willie the Wildcat[49]
- Motto text
- Quaecumque sunt vera
- Named after
- Northwest Territory[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Northwestern University Libraries
- Position held by head of the organization
- President of Northwestern University
- Published in
- New International Encyclopedia
- Ranking
- 31 (22–50, n=37)
- Review score
- 4.6/5[40]
- Significant event
- mixed-sex education[48]
- Social media followers
- 27k (4–76k, n=10)
- Topic has template
- Template:Northwestern University
🏷️ Also known as
en Northwestern University
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en North Western University
en NU
en northwestern.edu
ar جامعة نورث وسترن
cs Northwestern University
cs Severozápadní univerzita
da Northwestern
el Πανεπιστήμιο Νορθουέστερν
es Universidad Northwestern
es Universidad de Northwestern
es Northwestern University
es Universidad del Noroeste
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🔖 Identifiers · 96
- ROR ID
- 000e0be47
- ISNI
- 0000000122993507
- Legal Entity Identifier
- OBWWNZE695DUK77DTI34
- VIAF cluster ID
- 154193841
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n79056815
- GND ID
- 41006-8
- OpenAlex ID
- I111979921, P4310316339
- GRID ID
- grid.16753.36
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Northwestern Arch.jpg ↗
- ARK Name Assigning Authority Number
- 81985
- ARWU university ID
- Northwestern-University
- Autonomous system number
- 7.3k (103–7.3k, n=3)
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- BAnQ authority ID
- 0000115028
- BIBSYS ID
- 90328674
- BabelNet ID
- 00982736n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 123737153
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf12079835
- CiNii Research ID
- 1140282266592086272
- Crunchbase organization ID
- northwestern-university
- Dialnet author ID
- 1859123
- ELMCIP ID
- 3973
- Encyclopedia of Chicago ID
- 910
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Northwestern-University-Evanston-Illinois
- FAST ID
- 532999
- FES digital collections entity ID
- 369028
- Facebook username
- NorthwesternU
- FactGrid item ID
- Varna Necropolis
- Foursquare City Guide venue ID
- 43695300f964a52097291fe3
- Freebase ID
- /m/017j69
- GNIS Feature ID
- 414709
- Gateway to Research organization ID
- FE1EC3EB-3D38-4ABB-94B2-8429AC475C8F
- GeoNames ID
- 4904176
- Goodreads author ID
- 15465082
- Google Maps Customer ID
- 3186214719582462214
- Google Scholar organization ID
- 2800120650280650005
- Harvard Index of Botanists ID
- 92175
- IMDb ID
- co0128376
- IRS Employer Identification Number
- 36-2167817
- ISIL
- US-ien
- ITU/ISO/IEC object ID
- 1.3.6.1.4.1.7340
- IdRef ID
- 032772866
- Instagram username
- northwesternu
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
- 147767
- J9U entity ID
- 987007302775405171
- Japan Search name ID
- ノースウェスタン大学
- KISTI ID
- K000207646
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
- 41006-8
- Kallías ID
- KS00037013
- Libraries Australia ID
- 35391570
- LibraryThing author ID
- northwesternuniversi
- LinkedIn company or organization ID
- northwestern-university
- LittleSis organization ID
- 15018
- Mastodon address
- northwesternu@mstdn.social
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 111979921
- MusicBrainz place ID
- 36b55898-232e-42cc-99ca-902d60bfb9e6
- NACSIS-CAT author ID
- DA0128014X
- NL CR AUT ID
- ko2003206543, ko2003206544
- NLA Trove people ID
- 936269
- NLP ID
- a0000001714633
- NUKAT ID
- n96611087
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000257650
- National Library of Lithuania ID
- LNB:I++;=wC
- National Library of Poland MMS ID
- 9810690827205606
- National Library of Portugal ID
- 464432
- New York Times topic ID
- organization/northwestern-university
- Open Funder Registry funder ID
- 100007059
- Open Library ID
- OL2177867A
- Open Library subject ID
- northwestern_university_(evanston_ill.).
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 2105485
- PermID
- 4296530495
- Postimees topic ID
- 739036
- Private Enterprise Number
- 7340
- QS World University ID
- northwestern-university
- Quora topic ID
- Northwestern-University
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A000188583
- ResearchGate institute ID
- Northwestern-University2
- Ringgold ID
- 3270
- SEVIS school ID
- 5777
- SNAC ARK ID
- w6dz43m1
- SNARC ID
- Johan Eurén
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
- 10704
- ScholarGPS institution ID
- 13997113914228
- Scilit organization ID
- 1083
- Subreddit
- Northwestern
- Threads username
- northwesternu
- TikTok username
- northwestern.u
- Times Higher Education World University ID
- northwestern-university
- Topic's main category
- Category:Northwestern University
- U-Multirank university ID
- northwestern-university
- Union List of Artist Names ID
- 500300175
- Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
- ADV10013369
- Vatican Library VcBA ID
- 494/52869
- X (Twitter) topic ID
- 1296839966891233281
- X (Twitter) username
- northwesternu
- Yale LUX ID
- group/7bc8616f-a475-4005-8cdb-1e0f6e5bceb8
- YouTube channel ID
- UCJEiIxcZVfCpQ9zWQxPJWbA
📚 Sources · 4
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- ROR (Research Organization Registry)
- sunbiz Public records: Florida Chapter 119 and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, 889 So.2d 871 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004); Ryan ruling 2026-10-12. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Commercial reuse, redistribution and modification permitted for these records. Officer and registered-agent names in role public; natural-person addresses, personal IDs and private contacts internal-only. Basis us-fl-ch119.
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago
2026-09-26
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- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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sunbiz (us-fl-ch119)
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- sunbiz
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26 · newer edition 20261103 landed
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- us-fl-ch119
- Credit
- Public records: Florida Chapter 119 and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, 889 So.2d 871 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004); Ryan ruling 2026-10-12. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Commercial reuse, redistribution …
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Official websiteP856
https://www.northwestern.edu/
2026-09-26
ROR (cc0-1.0+geonames-cc-by-4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
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- Source
- ROR
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26 · newer edition 20261021 landed
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- ROR data dump: CC0 1.0 (ror.org). locations.* comes from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0 — credit GeoNames (geonames.org) when those columns are used. Organizations only; no personal fields.
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Public records: Florida Chapter 119 and Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, 889 So.2d 871 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004); Ryan ruling 2026-10-12. Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Commercial reuse, redistribution and modification permitted for these records. Officer and registered-agent names in role public; natural-person addresses, personal IDs and private contacts internal-only. Basis us-fl-ch119.
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
ROR data dump: CC0 1.0 (ror.org). locations.* comes from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0 — credit GeoNames (geonames.org) when those columns are used. Organizations only; no personal fields.
🔗 Connections
Notable alumni 789
← Affiliated with 439
Employees / affiliates 295
Has these parts 7
Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law,
Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Northwestern University,
Northwestern University Institute for Advanced Study & Research in the African Humanities,
Northwestern University Institute for Modern Communications,
Northwestern University Institute for the Learning Sciences,
Northwestern University Traffic Institute
← Affiliation 6
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Located in this place 3
Member of 3
← Category combines topics 3
← Conferred by 3
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Owned entities 2
Athletics program 1
Belongs to 1
Category for alumni of educational institution 1
Category for employees of the organization 1
Country 1
Different from 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Founded entities 1
Grants 1
Has part(s) 1
Headquarters location 1
Industry 1
Language used 1
Location 1
Named after 1
Owner of 1
Published in 1
SNARC ID 1
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Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois
emerging0.89contested5 independent sources
evidence “Gallwas is from the Chicagoland area and will be a freshman at Northwestern University in Illinois this fall.” theepochtimes.com · read source
Headquarters location
Evanston
emerging0.703 independent sources
evidence “Block, from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ilinois, and colleagues used data from 11 repeated cross-sectional surveys (2014 to 2024) of 183,000 adults aged 18 to 70 years to examine whether social media use was consistently associated with binary self-reported depression and whether it contributed to classification of self-reported depression.” renalandurologynews.com · read source
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Headquarters location
Illinois
low0.612 independent sources
evidence “Logan, Illinois’ largest women’s prison which offers a bachelor’s degree through Northwestern University, follows closely at just under 4.9 years.” wbez.org · read source
Chairperson
Samir Khuller
low0.612 independent sources
evidence “Samir Khuller, the chair of Northwestern University’s computer science department, said many of the smaller companies that are hiring don’t have big human resources departments with experience handling H-1B work visas.” bnnbloomberg.ca · read source
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Chicago
low0.08contradicted5 independent sources
evidence “Researchers at Northwestern University examined 916,404 emergency department and urgent-care visits involving 372,140 adults in Chicago between 2011 and 2023.” acento.com.do · 2026-10-09 · read source