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Study At Northwest

Classroom Environment
 
Students per Faculty 21 to 1
Undergraduate classes with fewer than 30 students 75%
Undergraduate classes with fewer than 50 students 92%
Full-Time Instructional Faculty
 
Total Faculty 256
% Women 45%
% from Minority Groups 9%
% with Highest Degree in Field 66%

Student Housing

91% of new freshmen live on campus

40% of all undergraduates live on campus

Campus Safety

Campus Safety has adopted and is committed to a community policing philosophy in its daily operations. Campus Safety works closely with the University Health and Safety Manager, Residential Life Staff, Freshman Seminar Office, Office of Student Affairs, other University offices and student organizations on safety related issues.

Carnegie Classification of Institutional Characteristics

Basic Type

Master's Colleges and Universities (medium programs)

Size and Setting

Medium four-year, highly residential

Enrollment Profile

Very high undergraduate

Undergraduate Profile

Full-time four-year, more selective, lower transfer-in

Undergraduate Instructional Program

Professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence

Graduate Instructional Program

Postbaccalaureate with arts & sciences (education dominant)

NOTE: Institutional classifications based on the Carnegie 2005 edition.