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Northern Illinois Ratings and Reviews

Dekalb, Illinois

 5 Reviews

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6/10

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5/10

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7/10

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6/10

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9/10

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b
Sep 5, 2024
Rating 5 out of 5

NIU is a great school for a quality education in the classroom and a Quality education about life, race, and the world you are in and will face. Not like other schools. Come to NIU, get a Quality educ. and learn about the world today........

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S
Oct 25, 2023
Rating 4 out of 5

Great, classic college town, but we could drive to Chicago in an hour or so if you wanted a big city day.

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S
Oct 12, 2023
Rating 4 out of 5

Dekalb/NIU has a classic "college town" feel, but you're only 80 minutes away from Chicago if in need of big city fun once or twice a semester. Football game days are great, liked my classes and professors, liked campus and the office campus housing.

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J
Apr 14, 2022
Rating 2 out of 5

All people do here in 2021/2022 is go to class (if that) and go to the dining halls. No one attends events, no one cares about things like student government, and there is not much to do out here. The one saving grace of this school is the Greek life which I find to be very active. If you're not in greek life, don't have a gaming console, or don't have a car what are you doing at this school to have fun? The professors are okay but me being a freshman and only taking Gen Eds so far kind of makes sense why there aren't many good teachers. This is a safe school on the campus but off of the campus at night is not a place you want to be.

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M
Oct 27, 2021
Rating 1 out of 5

Urban slum. Hated it. Low standards even for Illinois. Not all teachers were bad but overall the education was substandard.

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