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How Colleges Spend Money
The graph below shows the Administrative Cost Per Student at Northwestern University. This is a measure of expenditures per student for day-today executive operations of the institution, not including student services or academic management.
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FIRE Speech Rating
Northwestern University earns a Yellow speech code rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).A yellow light institution maintains policies that could be interpreted to suppress protected speech or policies that, while clearly restricting freedom of speech, restrict relatively narrow categories of speech.
FIRE evaluates colleges and universities' "speech codes," or written free speech policies, for how well they protect students' freedom of speech. ACTA believes an institution's commitment to free expression correlates with its commitment to academic excellence, facilitated through the free exchange of ideas.
"Northwestern is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community." [Source]
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Curriculum last evaluated: 1/11/2024
2021-22 enrollment and tuition data, and four-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time freshmen who enrolled in Fall 2012, are derived from the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator.