The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest of NIU’s seven colleges, with 17 departments, 7 centers, 385 faculty positions, and over 6500 undergraduates majoring in CLAS subjects, as well as over 1200 graduate students.
The College is committed to promoting excellence in undergraduate liberal education and in graduate programs built around cutting-edge research, and to fostering the connections between teaching and research, to their mutual benefit.