Home › Colleges › Northeastern University Professional Programs

🎓 College profile

Northeastern University Professional Programs

MA · Private nonprofit · Large city

Get your child's odds at Northeastern University Professional Programs Free Family Decision Report — Reach / Match / Likely + your real net price. Northeastern University Professional Programs starts already on the list. Start →

ℹ️ A note about this profile

Northeastern University Professional Programs doesn't publish standardized-test bands or admit-rate data to IPEDS. That usually means the institution is open-admission (no selectivity gate), graduate-focused, or small enough that the federal survey suppresses the numbers. The cost, program, and outcomes data below is still complete — just no admissions-difficulty signal to surface. If you're searching for a more selective Ivy-tier "Northeastern", try the search at the top of the page.

🎯 Parent/student verdict

Worth a look

Comprehensive 4-year institution.

✅ Best for

  • Students focused on Health Professions (the school's signature program)
  • Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience

Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price by income, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.

🏛️ Institutional snapshot

What kind of college is this?

Carnegie classification
Doctoral/Professional Universities
Total enrollment
1,802
5,000 - 9,999

Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.

📚 What students study here

Most popular majors at Northeastern University Professional Programs

Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what Northeastern University Professional Programs actually graduates — not just what it markets.

1. Health Professions
348 degrees · 57.7%
Highest-paying group on this list, but most careers require additional training beyond a 4-year degree.
2. Business, Management, & Marketing
130 degrees · 21.6%
Broad set of corporate roles. Finance + consulting pay top, accounting + HR pay middle, sales spread is wide.
3. Computer & Information Sciences
57 degrees · 9.5%
High-paying tech roles dominate. Median software roles cluster in the $90k-$130k range.
4. Biological & Biomedical Sciences
52 degrees · 8.6%
Many bio majors → med school / grad school. Direct-employment bio roles are lower-paid than that pipeline.
5. Psychology
16 degrees · 2.7%
Most undergrad psych grads go into non-clinical roles. Clinical/counseling psych requires a master's or doctoral.

Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →

📈 Student body & economic mobility

Who attends here — and what the campus adds.

Opportunity Insights data. Why it matters even if you're full-pay: a high mobility rate means the campus itself confers earnings power — the outcomes aren't just selection effects.

Top-1% access
3.8%
from top-1% households
Mobility rateThe share of ALL students who arrived from the bottom 20% of family incomes AND reached the top 20% themselves by their early 30s — access and lift in one number, and a sign the campus itself adds earnings power.
2.4%
bottom 20% → top 20% by age 32
Upward rate
47.4%
of lower-income students who reach the top 20%

Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →

🤖 AI program signal

AI + computing education at Northeastern University Professional Programs

CS degrees (annual)
2
CIP 11.0701 + 11.0101

Full multi-lens comparison: /ai-colleges →

⚖️ Compare side-by-side

Northeastern University Professional Programs vs. another college

Deciding on Northeastern University Professional Programs?

Get the full picture in one free report — your child's Reach / Match / Likely odds and your real net price, for Northeastern University Professional Programs and every other college on your list.

Get your child's odds at Northeastern University Professional Programs →

Score-odds calculator · Improve the score first · Find merit aid

For Parents

📬

Get alerts when Northeastern University Professional Programs's numbers change

New admit rates, costs, and outcomes — a few alerts a year, no spam. Your email also saves your list across devices.

Objective, government-grade data — no school pays us for placement.

🎯 Get your child's odds →