Northeastern University has six undergraduate colleges, including Health Science College, Arts and Sciences College, Business Administration College, Computer and Information Science College, Law School and Engineering College, with more than 70 undergraduate majors. International students account for 7% of the total number of students.
"Cooperative project" is the most prominent in the school. Except arts and sciences, most other courses take five years, because students have to work as interns in industrial and commercial institutions for one year. The best subjects in universities are engineering, business, physiotherapy, pharmacy, computer science, nursing, journalism, marketing and electrical engineering.
In addition, the school's creative industry projects provide a large number of comprehensive majors, such as image design and game design, digital art and game design, image art and interactive media, computer science and game design. In particular, the employment service of Northeastern University ranks 1 in the United States, and the popularity of science and engineering graduates in Northeastern companies is second only to MIT and Harvard University.
Northeastern University is also the seat of the Science and Technology Entrepreneur Center. Every year, it organizes competitions such as "Business Planning Competition" with a prize of 60,000 US dollars, invites famous business people to give speeches and holds discussions between entrepreneurs and students. Rich academic activities not only greatly broaden students' horizons, but also Northeastern University is famous in the whole Boston area because the number of high-tech entrepreneurs trained is second only to MIT.