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NIU Majors & Degree Programs

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• Top Program Areas
• Undergraduate Programs
• Bachelor’s Degree Contentrations
• Associate’s Degree Concentrations
• Undergrad’s Certificate Programs
• Most Popular Majors
• Best Ranked Majors
• Highest Paid Majors
• Online Degree Programs

Northern Illinois University Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 68 majors graduated from [college_name]. Of these students, 3,080 received undergraduate degrees and 1,389 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

NIU Majors List

Northern Illinois University offers [major_count] majors across {a number of|several} different {program areas|fields of study} including [top_program1], [top_program2] and [top_program3]. This list of majors offered by NIU includes:

Major	Undergrad	Graduate	Total	Percent
Marketing	542	125	684	28.1%
Nursing	145	51	195	15.5%

Most Popular NIU Program Areas

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Program Area	Undergrad	Graduate	Total	% of Total
Business, Sales & Marketing	542	125	684	28.1%
Health Care Professions	145	51	195	15.5%

The rest of this report will focus on the undergraduate program at Northern Illinois University. For more information on the graduate programs at NIU please so our Northern Illinois University Graduate Programs Report.

NIU Undergraduate Majors by Degree Level

Major	Certificate	Associate	Bachelors	Total
Marketing	0	125	684	789
Nursing	14	51	495	549

NIU Bachelors Degree Concentrations

Concentration by Major	Females	%	Males	%	Total	% of Major
Marketing
Digital Marketing	12	17.1%	11	87.1%	125	17.1%
Nursing
Registered Nursing	81	57.1%	68	43.1%	111	94.4%

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
General Psychology	189	NA
Nursing	185	NA
Business Administration & Management	174	NA
Health/Medical Prep Programs	164	NA
Communication & Media Studies	160	NA
Accounting	138	NA
Teacher Education Grade Specific	133	NA
Computer Science	128	NA
Marketing	125	NA
Mechanical Engineering	120	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Northern Illinois University along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Northern Illinois University Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 68 majors graduated from [college_name]. Of these students, 3,080 received undergraduate degrees and 1,389 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
General Psychology	189	NA
Nursing	185	NA
Business Administration & Management	174	NA
Health/Medical Prep Programs	164	NA
Communication & Media Studies	160	NA
Accounting	138	NA
Teacher Education Grade Specific	133	NA
Computer Science	128	NA
Marketing	125	NA
Mechanical Engineering	120	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Northern Illinois University along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

More about our data sources and methodologies.