We're here to help plan your academic journey.
Our advisors help math students plan courses, review degree progress and more. We also help students who are not pursuing math degrees with course placement, proficiency exams and other issues.
You can access degree requirements in the undergraduate catalog.
If you have any questions, please consult the following contacts, or call us at 815-753-0566:
Transfer Students
If you're transferring to NIU, we recommend checking the transfer credits and program major guides or contacting an NIU advisor. We can advise you on which courses do or do not transfer. NIU does not offer transfer credit for mathematics courses below college algebra.
If you have an associate degree and are pursuing a major without a specific math requirement, you won't need to take any additional math courses are NIU.
Course Placement
You'll be placed into an initial mathematics course based on your prior academic work. We'll try to place you in a course in which you're likely to succeed. This may be a course that has some overlap with courses you've already taken.
If you haven't taken any post-secondary mathematics classes, you must take our placement exam.
Educator Licensure
You are strongly encouraged to complete the calculus sequence at a community college. If you do not finish the calculus sequence prior to enrollment at NIU, then you will not be able to complete the required Math Education coursework in two years.
If you complete the calculus sequence at your community college and plan to take MATH 280 during your first semester at NIU, you should consider taking ILAS 201 (Introductory Clinical Experience) during the first semester as well.
Contact one of the coordinators of educator licensure in January or February of the spring semester that precedes your transfer to NIU. Turn in an application for ILAS 201 (DOCX) by March 1 of the same semester.