NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY B-6

Louie B Nunn Dr.
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Tel: (859)572-5100; 800-637-9948; Admissions: (859)572-5220; E-mail: admitnku@nku.edu; Web Site: http://www.nku.edu/

Description: State-supported, comprehensive, coed. Awards associate, bachelor's, master's, and first professional degrees. Founded 1968. Setting: 320-acre suburban campus with easy access to Cincinnati. Endowment: $1.5 million. Total enrollment: 13,910. Faculty: 839 (458 full-time, 381 part-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 18:1. 3,779 applied, 89% were admitted. Full-time: 9,105 students, 58% women, 42% men. Part-time: 3,083 students, 59% women, 41% men. Students come from 32 states and territories, 11 other countries, 27% from out-of-state, 0.2% Native American, 1% Hispanic, 5% black, 1% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 2% international, 27% 25 or older, 9% live on campus, 6% transferred in. Retention: 63% of 2003 full-time freshmen returned. Academic areas with the most degrees conferred: business/marketing; education; English; social sciences and history. Core. Calendar: semesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, advanced placement, honors program, independent study, distance learning, double major, summer session for credit, part-time degree program, adult/continuing education programs, co-op programs and internships, graduate courses open to undergrads. Off campus study at all Kentucky state schools, members of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities. Study abroad program. ROTC: Army, Air Force (c).

Entrance Requirements: Open admission. Options: electronic application, early admission, early action, deferred admission, international baccalaureate accepted. Required: high school transcript, SAT I or ACT. Recommended: ACT. Entrance: noncompetitive. Application deadlines: 8/1, 2/1 for early action. Notification: continuous, 2/15 for early action.

Costs Per Year: Application fee: $25. State resident tuition: $3744 full-time, $156 per credit hour part-time. Nonresident tuition: $7992 full-time, $333 per credit hour part-time. Full-time tuition varies according to location and reciprocity agreements. Part-time tuition varies according to location. College room and board: $5066. College room only: $3026. Room and board charges vary according to board plan, housing facility, and location.

Collegiate Environment: Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group, student-run newspaper, radio station. Social organizations: 100 open to all; national fraternities, national sororities, women's association; 4% of eligible men and 4% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: campus ministries, academic organizations, student government, Activities Program Board. Major annual events: Homecoming, Freshfusion, Rites of Spring. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service, controlled dormitory access. 1,500 college housing spaces available; all were occupied in 2002-03. No special consideration for freshman housing applicants. Options: coed, men-only, women-only housing available. Steely Library plus 2 others with 325,721 books, 771,708 microform titles, 2,217 serials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 600 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment: Located in the largest metropolitan area of any state university in Kentucky, NKU is seven miles southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio.