Huskie Success
Share Your Success
Reporting jobs, internships or graduate school enrollment demonstrates the value of the NIU experience.
- Students, please let us know about your internship, job or acceptance into a graduate/professional school program.
- Employers, please let us know if you have hired an NIU student or alumnus.
NIU Career Outcomes
NIU ranked in the top half of all universities nationally and in the top third for starting salaries, among the 12 public four-year institutions in Illinois, in PayScale's 2016 College Return on Investment hiring data survey. The median starting salary after graduation for NIU alumni is $57,000.
See where NIU graduates are working:
- 1st Advantage Mortgage
- 360 Physical Therapy, LLC
- Abbvie
- Acceleration Sports Performance
- ADP
- Advanced Geospatial Lab
- Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital
- Aerotek
- AIT Worldwide Logistics
- Allstate
- AmeriCorps
- Archdiocese of Chicago
- Arlington Heights School District 25
- Boeing
- BP Capital Management
- Brightstar Telecommunications
- Cabot Microelectronics
- Caterpillar, Inc.
- CDW
- Centegra Health Systems
- Citadel Investment Group
- City Year Milwaukee
- Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group
- Crowe Horwath LLP
- Cyberpulse LLC
- DeKalb County Economic Development Corporation
- DuPage County Forensic Science Center
- Dynamic Studios
- Edward Jones Investments
- Elk Grove Park District
- Ensono
- Enterprise Rent-A-Car
- Exel Logistics
- Familia Development
- FatWallet.com
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Feeding America
- Geneva Community District 304
- Global Insight Solutions
- Grant Thornton LLP
- Great Lakes Coca-cola Bottling
- Great World Advertising
- Hallmark Data Systems
- Hampstead Stage
- Higgins Sports & Spinal Rehab
- Hines VA Hospital
- Humana
- IBM
- Ideal Industries
- Illinois Dept. On Aging
- Illinois General Assembly
- Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus
- Innovaxis Marketing Consulting
- Internal Revenue Service
- Johnson Controls
- JP Morgan
- Kane County Health Department
- Kishwaukee Community Hospital
- Kohl's
- KPMG LLC
- Legislative Research Unit, Illinois General Assembly
- Loyola University Medical Center
- McDonald's Corporation
- McKesson Pharmaceutical
- Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council
- Microsoft
- Monsanto
- NavistNokia L&C
- Nordstrom
- PepsiCo
- PHH Mortgage
- Plante Moran LLP
- PNC Bank
- RE/MAX
- Rock River Development Partnership
- Rockford Memorial Hospital
- Rockford Public School District
- Rush University Medical Center
- Sears Holding Corporation
- Shaw Media
- Starcom Worldwide
- SunCoke Energy, Inc.
- Target Corporation
- TEKsystems
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The Boeing Company
- The National Safety Council
- The National Weather Service
- The Valley Journal Newspaper
- U.S. House of Representatives
- Uline Shipping Supplies
- United Airlines
- United Technologies Aerospace Systems
- UTC Aerospace Systems
- Walgreen Co.
Contact Us
Career ServicesPeters Campus Life Building 220
815-753-1642
CareerServices@niu.edu
Hours of Operation
Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
If you're a current student, you can schedule an appointment via Navigate. If you're alumni or faculty/staff, please complete this form and we will get back to you promptly.