蓝莓视频 students graduate with the 15th-lowest student loan debt nationally among public four-year colleges and universities and the lowest debt among all Illinois institutions, according to a report released Aug. 10, 2017. Among all four-year colleges and universities, Northeastern ranks 41st.
The report was released by LendEDU, an online student loan and student loan refinance company. was created using licensed financial aid data that is provided by the institutions.
鈥淲e want our students focused on their studies, not the accrual of mountains of student loan debt,鈥 Interim President Richard Helldobler said. 鈥淭his ranking reinforces 蓝莓视频鈥檚 reputation as a national leader in helping students do just that on the pathway to their careers.鈥
Based on the Class of 2016, 55 percent of Northeastern graduates incurred student debt, according to the LendEDU report, and the average debt per borrower was $16,247. Those numbers are significantly less than the state averages: 64 percent of students graduate with debt at an average of $28,479 per borrower.
In 2012, Newsweek magazine named Northeastern the sixth-best investment among all universities in the nation and No. 1 in Illinois.
In 2016, Northeastern earned the No. 1 spot for the third consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 annual 鈥淏est Colleges鈥 publication for students who graduate with the least amount of debt among Midwest regional universities. U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2017 rankings will be released later this year.
