Northeastern University

ARWU has ranked many of the top courses at Northeastern University throughout recent years. Take a look at some of the rankings of the popular courses at this university in the table given below: 

As per the ARWU Rankings, Northeastern University has been ranked in one of the top universities in the world. The university has been ranked at #201 in the universities level ranking in the year 2025. The ARWU rankings for this university are constant for the last 3 years.

Look at the table given below for year comparison for NU -

Northeastern University is known to be among the most popular universities in the world. For the year 2026, the rankings for Northeastern and ASU have been ranked at #201 (both of them). 

The comparative rankings of Northeastern and ASU in recent years is given in the table below:

THE ranks universities based on Teaching, Research Environment, Research Quality, Industry Standards, and International Outlook. The ranking criteria elements along with its weightage is given as follows:

The Times Higher Education Rankings is known to be one the top ranking bodies for providing world and university level rankings for universities around the world.

The university level rankings of Northeastern University according to THE are given as follows -

Most of the similarly ranked universities in USA have shown a slight improvement in their world ranks based on the Quacquarelli Symonds World Rankings. If we compare Northeastern University and Arizona State University, their QS world rankings are given in the table below:

Based on recent data some of the popular programs at Northeastern University are Global MBA, Business Analytics, Medicine and Performing Arts. The QS World Rankings for some of the top programs at the university are given as follows:

According to the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, Northeastern University has been ranked in the top 400 universities in the world. Some of the yearly world rankings of the university are given as follows:

Northeastern University is known to be one of the most popular universities in the world based on the US News Rankings. The comparative rankings of Northeastern University and Arizona State University is given in the table below:

Based on the Shiksha Popularity Rankings, the courses offered at Northeastern University such as MS, MBA and Law related are ranked at #48, #67 and #28 respectively. The US News and World Report course rankings of the university are given as follows: