Financial Aid
Our commitment to academic excellence is matched by a longstanding dedication to college access and affordability. Northwestern has one of the largest financial aid programs of any private university in the world, meeting 100% of every admitted student’s demonstrated financial need with loan-free aid packages. We aim to make Northwestern affordable for all, creating a community that is as diverse, supportive, and inclusive as possible.
I’m a first-generation college student coming from a single-parent household with three younger siblings. Northwestern’s financial aid showed me that while I was finally away from home and on my own, my dream school would support me every step of the way.”
I come from a family of four siblings who were all in college almost concurrently. Northwestern gave me an amazing opportunity to study at a world-class university without worrying about crushing debt.”
Employment
In 2008, 530 companies came on campus to recruit Kellogg grads. Although that’s not as many firms as schools such as Harvard, Columbia,
or Wharton attracted, those who came to Kellogg spent plenty of time here, conducting some 20,000 interviews—double the number of
interviews at other B-school campuses. An additional 3120 jobs were posted electronically. Overall, Kellogg grads walked away with an average of 3.5 employment offers apiece—up from 3.39 in 1998. And grads garnered a median starting pay package of $242,000, near the top of the B-school pack. As at most schools, consulting continues to grow in popularity as a job choice, with about 40 percent of the Class of 2000 heading into that field. Dean Jacobs feels this is, surprisingly enough, consistent with the high interest in entrepreneurship: “You can work three to four years, with high current income to pay back your education debt, look broadly at different kinds of operations, make contacts, and look for potential ideas. The shift to start-ups will come 5 to 10 years down the road.”