Our faculty are here for you!
Making your future our focus
With over 1,100 instructional faculty and a student/faculty ratio of 16:1, we will be sure you get the attention you need to succeed.
NIU faculty are scholars, teachers, researchers, mentors and academic leaders who bring their broad range of diversity in expertise, experiences and backgrounds into the classroom and beyond.
Kunal Patel
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Wesley Swingley
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Sean Farrell
Professor, Department of History
Valia Allori
Professor, Department of Philosophy
“I like the classroom settings at NIU. I feel that they’re small enough for me to be engaged and I’ve had the chance to connect with my professors and have one-on-one time with them.”
Glennita Williams,
Political science major
Academic Affairs
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