International Students and Scholars

Rankings and Recognitions


  • Last year, the Entrepreneurship Institute was named one of the nation's 25 best entrepreneurship programs by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.
  • The sports business undergraduate program was one of the first of its kind in America.
  • The College of Informatics is one of only three in the nation.
  • The Haile Digital Planetarium, which opened in 2007, is the first laser projection planetarium system to ever be installed on an educational institution's campus anywhere in the world.  NKU is only the seventh institution in the world to have such equipment, and the others are six major planetariums (including those in Tokyo, Los Angeles and London).
  • Salmon P. Chase College of Law is the largest law school in Kentucky, with an enrollment of more than 500. The school also produces the most lawyers in Kentucky, and the second-most in Ohio. Students taking the Kentucky bar exam for the first time achieved a 94 percent pass rate in February, and that was 9 percentage points higher than the pass rate for all first-time takers. Chase students also exceeded the overall pass rate by 7 percent. The Kentucky bar exam is administered twice each year in February and July.
  • In 2005, NKU was selected as one of 13 universities to advise the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on the development of an elective classification system based on community engagement. In 2006, NKU became one of only 76 institutions nationwide to receive such recognition by the Carnegie Foundation, and one of only 66 recognized for both "curricular engagement" and "outreach and partnerships."
  • NKU was chosen as one of six universities to participate in an exclusive partnership with the The New York Times. This fall, NKU's Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneurship Institute began offering a web-based course titled "Women and Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Resources for Success" to help female entrepreneurs develop the skills and resources to take their firms to new levels of growth and profitability.
  • The Northern Kentucky University Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneurship Institute received the 2007 National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (NCEC) Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation. The award is presented each year to centers committed to maximizing current and future student benefits through excellence in teaching and pedagogy. Excellence is demonstrated by activities that change and improve the way entrepreneurship is taught and learned and by expanding the potential in the field through affiliated faculty and instructors whose teaching approaches seek to create a broader skill-set to equip entrepreneurial thinkers.
  • The Northern Kentucky University College of Business is an outstanding business school, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company has selected the school for inclusion in the 2008 edition of its book, Best 290 Business Schools, available in bookstores Oct. 9, 2008. NKU is one of 23 business schools that The Princeton Review is adding to the guidebook this year.
  • By 2020, NKU is on track to support 50,000 new jobs planned to open in the Northern Kentucky area. How will they do it? By adding 69 new tenure-track faculty and 95 staff members. It is all a part of Vision 2015, a 10-year plan with goals to transform the future of the region.