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Northeastern University ( NU or NEU) is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1898, it was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922.
The Hunnan Campus of Northeastern University is located at 195 Chuangxin Road, Hunnan District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China. It is situated 16 kilometers away from the university's Nanhu Campus. The campus covers an area of 890,000 square meters and has a planned construction area of 970,000 square meters.
A year later, in February 2020, NCH at Northeastern was granted its own taught degree awarding powers. It was awarded university title and changed its name to "Northeastern University – London" after regulatory approval by the Office for Students in July 2022. The university's campus is located in the St Katharine Docks area of London.
The university was founded in 1964 as the Nova University of Advanced Technology on a former naval outlying landing field built during World War II and first offered graduate degrees in the physical and social sciences. In 1994, the university merged with the Southeastern University of the Health Sciences and assumed its current name.
In September 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the first time in the university's history, tied at number 220. On March 3, 2017, Barry Mills was appointed the university's deputy chancellor and chief operating officer.
In 2023, Northwestern Polytechnical University was listed as one of the world's top 350 universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. In 2022, NPU ranked 25th in the Best Chinese Universities Ranking compiled by Shanghai Ruanke.
The Best Global Universities ranking by U.S. News & World Report is an annual ranking of world universities. On October 28, 2014, U.S. News , which began ranking American universities in 1983, published its inaugural global ranking, assessing 500 universities in 49 countries.
The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots.