Northeastern University

Northeastern University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and with more than 38,000 students it is the largest university in Massachusetts by enrollment.东北大学（Northeastern University）是位于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿的一所私立研究型大学；其在校学生超过 38,000 人，是按在校生规模计的麻萨诸塞州最大高校。此校与美国境外的同名院校并不同源。

It was founded in 1898 by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association as an evening institute, was incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916 and gained university status in 1922.该校由波士顿基督教青年会于 1898 年以夜校形式创办，1916 年改组为东北学院，1922 年升格为大学。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 385th, it stands joint 254th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 232nd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it occupies the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex credits it with 105,193 research works and 7,098,623 citations.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 385，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 254，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 232，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 105,193 项、累计被引 7,098,623 次。

History

• In May 1896 directors of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, the first in the United States, established an Evening Institute for Younger Men to coordinate the classes they had run for forty years.1896 年 5 月，美国首个基督教青年会即波士顿青年会的理事们设立青年男子夜校，以整合其四十年来开设的课程。

• The institute held its first classes in 1898, promising a good education to any young man of moral character who held a Young Men's Christian Association membership.该夜校于 1898 年首次开课，承诺为任何具有品德且持有基督教青年会会员身份的青年男子提供良好教育。

• In 1903 the institute established the first Automobile Engineering School in the country, followed by a Polytechnic School and a School of Commerce and Finance.1903 年，该校创办全美首个汽车工程学院，随后又设立工业学院与商业金融学院。

• In 1909 the Polytechnic School began offering cooperative engineering courses to eight students, the beginning of the cooperative education that defines the university today.1909 年，工业学院开始为八名学生开设合作工程课程，这成为今日定义该校的合作教育之滥觞。

• The cooperative programme, the second of its kind in the United States after Cincinnati, was eventually adopted by all departments of the university.这一合作教育项目是全美继辛辛那提之后的第二个同类项目，最终被该校所有院系采用。

• On 30 March 1917 Frank Palmer Speare, a veteran educator who had directed the institute, was inaugurated as the first president of the newly incorporated Northeastern College.1917 年 3 月 30 日，曾主管该夜校的资深教育家弗兰克·帕尔默·斯皮尔就任新改组的东北学院首任校长。

• In 1920 the Cooperative School of Engineering, later the College of Engineering, was authorised to grant degrees in civil, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering.1920 年，合作工程学院即后来的工程学院获得授予土木、化学、电气与机械工程学位的授权。

• Five years after its incorporation the college changed its name to Northeastern University in 1922, securing general degree-granting power from the state legislature in 1923.改组五年后的 1922 年，该校更名为东北大学，并于 1923 年从州议会取得一般学位授予权。

• The College of Liberal Arts was added in 1935, and two years later the Northeastern University Corporation was established with a board of trustees of thirty-one university members and eight from the Young Men's Christian Association.1935 年增设文理学院；两年后成立东北大学法人，董事会由 31 名校方成员与 8 名基督教青年会成员组成。

• Following the Second World War the university began admitting women, and it completely separated from the Young Men's Christian Association in 1948.第二次世界大战后，东北大学开始招收女性学生，并于 1948 年与基督教青年会完全脱离关系。

• In 1938 Richards Hall, housing classrooms, laboratories and offices, was the first building completed on the new Boston campus designed by Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott.1938 年，容纳教室、实验室与办公场所的理查兹大楼落成，成为由（Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott）设计的新波士顿校园的首座建筑。

• Under President Asa S. Knowles, who led the university from 1959 to 1975, the curriculum broadened and the colleges of Education, Pharmacy and Nursing were created.在 1959 年至 1975 年主政的阿萨·S·诺尔斯校长任内，课程范围扩大，教育学院、药学院与护理学院相继成立。

• The College of Criminal Justice was created in 1967, and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences followed in 1982 as the first dedicated computer science college in the United States.刑事司法学院于 1967 年设立；库里计算机科学学院于 1982 年成立，是美国首个专门的计算机科学学院。

• By 1974-1975 women accounted for 33 per cent of nearly 14,000 undergraduates and 5 per cent of students were black, while more than 900 came from foreign countries.到 1974 至 1975 学年，女性已占近 14,000 名本科生的 33%，黑人学生占 5%，另有 900 多名学生来自海外。

• In the early 1980s under President Kenneth G. Ryder the university grew into one of the largest private universities in the nation with around 55,000 students.20 世纪 80 年代初，在肯尼斯·G·赖德校长任内，该校成长为全美规模最大的私立大学之一，在校生约 55,000 人。

• When John A. Curry left office in 1996 the university population had been reduced to about 25,000 as part of a strategy to become a smaller and more focused institution.1996 年约翰·A·柯里卸任时，该校在校生已缩减至约 25,000 人，这是其转向更精简、更聚焦的办学战略的一部分。

• President Richard M. Freeland, in office from 1996 to 2006, reorganised cooperative education and set the goal of creating the country's premier programme of practice-oriented education.1996 年至 2006 年任校长的理查德·M·弗里兰重组了合作教育，并提出打造全国最优秀的实践导向教育项目的目标。

• Joseph E. Aoun, a former dean at the University of Southern California, became president on 15 August 2006 and has led the university's global expansion since then.曾任南加州大学院长的约瑟夫·E·奥恩于 2006 年 8 月 15 日就任校长，此后主导了该校的全球扩张。

• The Empower Campaign, launched in 2013, raised 1.4 billion dollars by October 2017, with more than 100,000 individuals and 3,800 organisations donating from 110 countries.2013 年启动的（Empower）筹款运动到 2017 年 10 月共筹集 14 亿美元，来自 110 个国家的十万多名个人与 3,800 多个组织参与了捐赠。

• In 2022 the university launched the Experience Powered by Northeastern campaign and raised its target from 1.3 billion to 1.75 billion dollars in February 2025.2022 年，该校发起（Experience Powered by Northeastern）全球筹款计划，并于 2025 年 2 月将目标从 13 亿美元提高到 17.5 亿美元。

• In July 2022 Mills College in Oakland, California, became Mills College at Northeastern University through a merger, and a merger with Marymount Manhattan College was finalised in 2026.2022 年 7 月，加州奥克兰的米尔斯学院通过合并成为东北大学米尔斯学院；与玛丽蒙特曼哈顿学院的合并则于 2026 年完成。

Academics

• The university offers 371 undergraduate majors, of which 304 are combined majors, together with 39 doctoral programmes and 264 other graduate programmes.东北大学开设 371 个本科专业，其中 304 个为复合专业，另设 39 个博士项目与 264 个其他研究生项目。

• The university had 3,488 faculty in the autumn of 2024, and its teaching rests on a liberal arts education combined with experiential learning.该校 2024 年秋季有 3,488 名教师，其教学以通识教育与体验式学习的结合为基础。

• The university has eight degree-granting colleges, among them Arts Media and Design, Khoury Computer Sciences, Engineering, Bouvé Health Sciences, Professional Studies, Science, Social Sciences and Humanities.该校设有八个授予学位的学院，包括艺术媒体与设计学院、库里计算机科学学院、工程学院、布韦健康科学学院、专业进修学院、理学院、社会科学与人文学院。

• Two further schools stand outside those colleges, namely the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and the Northeastern University School of Law.另有两个学院独立于上述学院之外，即达莫尔—麦金商学院与东北大学法学院。

• The cooperative education programme, launched in 1909, places over 10,000 students annually in full-time paid professional positions with more than 4,000 employers.始于 1909 年的合作教育项目每年将一万多名学生安排到 4,000 多家雇主的全职带薪专业岗位。

• Ninety-three per cent of undergraduates take part in at least one cooperative placement, and 58 per cent receive a job offer from a previous cooperative employer.93% 的本科生至少参加一次合作实习，58% 的学生获得此前合作雇主的工作录用。

• Students on cooperative placement pay no tuition, and the model alternates academic study with paid professional employment related to the student's major.参加合作实习的学生无需缴纳学费，该模式使学业与专业相关的带薪工作交替进行。

• The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education and is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity.该校获得新英格兰高等教育委员会的认证，并被列为科研活动极强的 R1 类博士型大学。

• Federally funded research and contracts reached 268 million dollars in the 2024 financial year, with total research funding exceeding 281 million dollars.2024 财年，该校获联邦资助的科研经费与合同达 2.68 亿美元，科研经费总额超过 2.81 亿美元。

• The university is among a select group of American universities exceeding 200 million dollars in annual research awards without a medical campus.该校是美国少数在没有医学院的情况下年度科研经费仍超过两亿美元的大学之一。

• The Network Science Institute houses the only doctoral programme in network science in the United States.该校网络科学研究所拥有美国唯一的网络科学博士项目。

• For the class entering in autumn 2025 the university received 105,257 applications, admitted 5,916 and enrolled 2,736, an acceptance rate of about 5.6 per cent.2025 年秋季入学的新生班级中，该校收到 105,257 份申请，录取 5,916 人，实际入学 2,736 人，录取率约为 5.6%。

• International students number more than 12,000 and represent 138 nations, forming more than half of the student body.该校国际学生超过 12,000 人，来自 138 个国家，占学生总数的一半以上。

• The middle fifty per cent of enrolled first-year students had composite SAT scores of 1440 to 1510 and ACT scores of 33 to 35.录取的一年级学生中，居中的 50% 的 SAT 总分区间为 1440 至 1510，ACT 总分区间为 33 至 35。

• The John Martinson Honors Program, supported by a five-million-dollar gift in 2024, selects students from the regular applicant pool without a separate application.由 2024 年五百万美元捐赠支持的约翰·马丁森荣誉项目，从常规申请者中选拔学生，不设单独申请程序。

• Study abroad placements take students to institutions such as the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the University of Tokyo and the University of Cape Town.海外学习项目将学生送往剑桥大学、伦敦政治经济学院、东京大学与开普敦大学等院校。

Campus

• The main campus covers 73 acres along Huntington Avenue and Columbus Avenue in Boston's Fenway and Roxbury neighbourhoods, near the Museum of Fine Arts and Symphony Hall.主校区占地 73 英亩，沿波士顿芬威与罗克斯伯里街区的亨廷顿大道与哥伦布大道分布，毗邻美术博物馆与交响乐厅。

• In 2019 the campus was officially designated an arboretum by ArbNet, making it the only campus in Boston to hold that designation.2019 年，该校园被（ArbNet）正式认定为树木园，成为波士顿唯一获此认定的校园。

• The first baseball World Series took place on the Huntington Avenue Grounds, now part of the campus, and the site is marked by a statue of the pitcher Cy Young.首届世界大赛棒球赛在如今属于校园的亨廷顿大道球场举行，该地点立有投手赛·扬的雕像。

• Krentzman Quadrangle is the main quadrangle, fronted by the university brick sign and bordered by Ell Hall, Dodge Hall and Richards Hall.克伦茨曼方庭是主方庭，前方设有东北大学砖砌校名标识，四周为埃尔楼、道奇楼与理查兹楼。

• Richards Hall, completed in October 1938, was the first building on the campus, and Ell Hall, completed in 1947, contains a 992-seat auditorium.理查兹楼于 1938 年 10 月落成，是校园的首座建筑；1947 年完工的埃尔楼内设有一个 992 座礼堂。

• The Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex, completed in 2017 at a cost of 225 million dollars, won the 2018 Harleston Parker Medal as the most beautiful building in Boston.跨学科科学与工程综合体于 2017 年落成，造价 2.25 亿美元，并于 2018 年获得（Harleston Parker Medal），被评为波士顿最美建筑。

• The library system centres on Snell Library, which opened in 1990 at a cost of 35 million dollars and reopened in 2025 after a two-year renovation.图书馆体系以斯内尔图书馆为核心，该馆 1990 年启用，造价 3,500 万美元，并在历时两年的改造后于 2025 年重新开放。

• Satellite campuses serve Charlotte, Seattle, San Jose, Oakland, Portland, Burlington, Miami, New York City, London, Toronto and Vancouver, and the MBTA Orange and Green lines run through the Boston campus.该校卫星校区服务于夏洛特、西雅图、圣何塞、奥克兰、波特兰、伯灵顿、迈阿密、纽约市、伦敦、多伦多与温哥华；波士顿校内有麻州湾交通局橙线与绿线穿过。

• The Boston campus is crossed by the MBTA Orange and Green lines and stands beside the Museum of Fine Arts, Symphony Hall and the Christian Science Center, giving students easy access to the cultural institutions of the city.波士顿校内有麻州湾交通局橙线与绿线穿过，紧邻美术博物馆、交响乐厅与基督教科学会中心，便于学生使用城市的文化设施。

• Later buildings such as the 357,000 square foot EXP research building, opened in 2023, and the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex have extended the campus, which is also home to the historic Matthews Arena, the oldest surviving indoor ice hockey arena in the world.2023 年启用的 35.7 万平方英尺 EXP 科研大楼与跨学科科学与工程综合体等较晚建成的建筑拓展了校园；校园内还有历史悠久的马修斯体育馆，它是世界上现存最古老的室内冰球馆。

• The campus was designated an arboretum in 2019 and includes the Krentzman Quadrangle, a series of residence halls along Huntington Avenue and the Snell Library at its centre, which reopened in 2025 after a two-year renovation.该校园于 2019 年被认定为树木园，拥有克伦茨曼方庭、沿亨廷顿大道分布的宿舍群，以及处于中心的斯内尔图书馆——该馆在历时两年的改造后于 2025 年重新开放。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the university is placed 385th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands joint 254th.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，东北大学位列第 385；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 254。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 232nd, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 201-300 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 232；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201 至 300 区间。

• In the 2026 edition of the U.S. News National Universities ranking it stood 46th in the United States.在 2026 年版 US News 全国大学排名中，该校位居美国第 46。

• The university's rise in national rankings accelerated after 2010, when it placed 39th in the 2016-2017 U.S. News best colleges list, a thirty-place gain since 2010-2011.该校在全国排名中的攀升自 2010 年后加速，在 2016 至 2017 年版 US News 最佳大学榜单中位列第 39，较 2010 至 2011 年上升了 30 位。

• Its cooperative education model is among the largest and oldest in the world, placing over 10,000 students a year with more than 4,000 employers.其合作教育模式是全球规模最大、历史最悠久的同类项目之一，每年将一万多名学生安排至 4,000 多家雇主。

• OpenAlex records 105,193 research works and 7,098,623 citations for the university, reflecting strong output in computer science, engineering and health.OpenAlex 记录该校研究成果 105,193 项、累计被引 7,098,623 次，体现其在计算机科学、工程与健康领域的强劲产出。

• The university has 365,000 living alumni in 187 countries, and its graduates include founders and executives in technology, business and public life.东北大学在全球 187 个国家拥有 36.5 万名在世校友，其毕业生中不乏科技、商业与公共生活领域的创始人与高管。

• The university is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and holds the R1 classification for very high research activity.该校是波士顿高等教育联盟成员，并属于科研活动极强的 R1 类大学。

• Its Khoury College of Computer Sciences, founded in 1982, was the first dedicated computer science college in the United States.其 1982 年成立的库里计算机科学学院是美国首个专门的计算机科学学院。

Student life

• The university motto is Lux Veritas Virtus, meaning light, truth and courage, and its colours are Northeastern red and black.该校校训为（Lux Veritas Virtus），意为「光、真理与勇气」；校色为东北红与黑。

• The athletic teams have been known as the Huskies since 1927, when King Husky I, a sled dog, arrived on campus in a celebration on 4 March.该校运动队自 1927 年起称为哈士奇队，当年 3 月 4 日，雪橇犬「哈士奇王一世」在校园庆典中到来。

• The university's fight song, All Hail Northeastern, was composed by Charles A. Pethybridge of the class of 1932.该校校歌（All Hail Northeastern）由 1932 届学生查尔斯·A·佩西布里奇创作。

• There are more than 18 varsity teams, over 30 club sports and more than 400 student clubs and organisations on campus.校园内有 18 支以上校队、30 多个俱乐部运动项目，以及 400 多个学生社团与组织。

• The Dean of Students leads campus-life services, and the Student Government Association represents undergraduates with legislative, executive and judicial branches.学生事务院长主管校园生活服务；学生自治会以立法、行政与司法三部门代表本科生。

• Campus media include The Huntington News, the student newspaper, and Northeastern Television, while six a cappella groups compete in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.校园媒体包括学生报纸（The Huntington News）与东北电视；六个无伴奏合唱团参加国际大学无伴奏合唱锦标赛。

• The Underwear Run, started in 2005, is a university-sponsored event in which students run a campus circuit in their underwear during the autumn midterm season.始于 2005 年的「内衣跑」是由校方支持的活动，学生在秋季期中季穿着内衣绕校园跑步。

• Husky Hunt, organised by the Resident Student Association, is a 24-hour city-wide scavenger hunt in which fifty teams search Greater Boston for locations matching clues and puzzles.由住宿学生协会组织的「哈士奇寻宝」是持续 24 小时的全城寻宝活动，五十支队伍在大波士顿地区寻找与线索和谜题对应的地点。

• The athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Coastal Athletic Association and in Hockey East, with more than 18 varsity sports and the annual Beanpot hockey tournament among the highlights of the sporting year.该校运动队以海岸体育协会成员身份参加 NCAA 一级赛事，并参与冰球东部联盟；校内有 18 个以上校级运动项目，一年一度的豆锅冰球赛是体育年度的亮点之一。

• Cooperative education shapes student life, as undergraduates alternate semesters of study with paid professional placements, often in other cities or countries, and more than 400 clubs and organisations fill the campus with activity.合作教育塑造了学生生活，本科生在学业学期与带薪专业实习（常在异地或他国）之间交替；400 多个社团与组织让校园充满活力。

• Traditions such as the Underwear Run, Husky Hunt and the annual Beanpot give the university a distinct culture, while its more than 365,000 living alumni maintain networks in 187 countries around the world.「内衣跑」「哈士奇寻宝」与年度豆锅冰球赛等传统赋予该校独特文化；其 36.5 万余名在世校友在全球 187 个国家维系着校友网络。

Notable people

• Joseph E. Aoun has served as the seventh president of the university since 2006.约瑟夫·E·奥恩自 2006 年起担任东北大学第七任校长。

• Frank Palmer Speare, the first president, led the institution from 1898 to 1940, while Asa S. Knowles, president from 1959 to 1975, broadened its curriculum.首任校长弗兰克·帕尔默·斯皮尔自 1898 年至 1940 年执掌该校；1959 年至 1975 年任校长的阿萨·S·诺尔斯则拓宽了课程体系。

• Richard M. Freeland, president from 1996 to 2006, reorganised cooperative education and set the goal of cracking the top hundred of the national rankings.1996 年至 2006 年任校长的理查德·M·弗里兰重组了合作教育，并立下跻身全国排名前百的目标。

• Biz Stone, a co-founder of Twitter, is among the university's graduates.推特联合创始人比兹·斯通是该校毕业生之一。

• Shawn Fanning, who attended the university, created the Napster file-sharing service.曾就读于该校的肖恩·范宁创办了（Napster）文件共享服务。

• Nikesh Arora, a former senior executive at Google, and Jeff Clarke are counted among the university's alumni.曾任谷歌高管的尼科什·阿罗拉与杰夫·克拉克都是该校校友。

• Sheldon Kaplan, a 1962 graduate, invented the EpiPen auto-injector, a device that has saved countless lives.1962 届毕业生谢尔登·卡普兰发明了（EpiPen）自动注射笔，这一装置挽救了无数生命。

• Maggie Hassan, a United States senator and former governor of New Hampshire, and Karen Spilka, president of the Massachusetts Senate, are alumni.美国参议员、前新罕布什尔州州长玛吉·哈桑，以及麻萨诸塞州参议院议长凯伦·斯皮尔卡均为该校校友。

• Michael Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, taught at the university.前麻萨诸塞州州长、1988 年民主党总统候选人迈克尔·杜卡基斯曾在该校任教。

• Alan McKim, a graduate, trustee and entrepreneur, was the university's 2026 graduate commencement speaker, and Warren D'Amore and Richard D'Amore gave sixty million dollars to the business school in 2012.毕业生、校董与企业家艾伦·麦金担任该校 2026 年研究生毕业典礼演讲人；沃伦·达莫尔与理查德·达莫尔于 2012 年向商学院捐赠 6,000 万美元。