Northern Kentucky University College Portrait
Northern Kentucky University1 University Drive Highland Heights, KY 41099
(859) 572-5220
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- Students
Find out more about the characteristics of students who attend NKU.
- Admissions
See how many students applied, accepted, and enrolled at NKU. Learn more about students’ high school preparation and test scores.
- College Costs & Financial Aid
Learn about costs to attend NKU and how much financial aid is typically awarded.
- College Cost Estimator
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- Classes and Campus Life
Learn more about professors, where students live, and campus safety at NKU.
- Student Experiences
Discover ways to be actively involved in your education at NKU – inside and outside the classroom.
- Majors, Graduation and Next Steps
See which majors are most popular at NKU and what recent graduates plan to do after earning their bachelor's degree.
- Student Success & Progress
Discover how many students who start at NKU finish their bachelor's degree and how long it takes.
- Student Learning Outcomes
Figure out what learning gains to expect in critical thinking, writing, and other important subjects at NKU.
NKU Classes & Instructors
| Classroom Environment | |
|---|---|
| Students per Faculty | 18 to 1 |
| Undergraduate classes with fewer than 30 students | 71% |
| Undergraduate classes with fewer than 50 students | 95% |
| Total Full-Time Instructional Faculty | 548 |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Are Female | 50% |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Are Persons of Color | 11% |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Have the Highest Academic Degree Offered in Their Field of Study | 76% |
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Campus-based Housing
40% of new freshmen live in campus-based housing or residence halls.
13% of all undergraduates live on campus
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Campus Safety
Providing a safe and secure campus for students, faculty and staff is a top priority at NKU! As a state-accredited police department, NKU’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) demonstrates that they meet commonly accepted professional standards for efficient and effective operations while taking a proactive approach in providing protection, service and education to the campus community along with a community policing philosophy. With its staff of state-certified and trained police officers, DPS provides around-the-clock protection for all campus areas including parking lots/garages and residential areas. Other safety features include a campus-wide emergency notification system that communicates with the campus community via text, voice and email messaging and/or interior/exterior warning speakers in the event of an emergency, weather alert of school closing; a residential card access security system to enter residence halls; a camera system on entrances/exits to the residential buildings; seventeen emergency call box phones, easily recognized by the blue light towering above each positioned throughout the campus; and a 24-hour police escort service. On-going campus safety and crime prevention presentations are discussed during orientation and regular residential village forums such as the Rape Aggression Defense System, a comprehensive course for women and a program of realistic, self defense tactics and techniques which begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training; and the Citizens' Police Academy that is an educational program designed to give the public a working knowledge of NKU’s police department’s personnel and policies. Further information on presentations can be found at: http://dps.nku.edu/outreach/. Campus crime statistics (Jeanne Clery Act and Michael Minger Act) can be found at: http://dps.nku.edu/safety/annual_crime/.