<p>I know it is a cheap University but is it a good University? Will I be able to get into a good graduate school with a degree from there. I am from Chicago and never heard of it until now. Know anyone who went there and who are successful now?</p>
<p>That any of us may not know of it does not mean it is not a good university or is. There are thousands of accredited colleges in the US and the vast majority of us don’t know the names or situations of most of them. Finding the hidden gems among them can be a true treasure hunt as many of them can form the base of your college list in terms of the most important schools on it. EVERYONE should have schools that will take them and are affordable, and looking at all of the obvious choices leaves off options that do not have the cost of name recognition. You need to do your research about the school.</p>
<p>My DH’s friend and former colleague has two daughters who went to schools that nearly no one would recognize. They had nursing and other medical field programs that those women took and they now make good incomes at jobs with flexible schedules. I am more impressed with schools that can give that sort of preparation for a student than one that can boast a handful of big name alumni.</p>
<p>This is really a question for the College Search forum - but since you asked it here -</p>
<p>Northeastern Illinois University is an in-city, strictly commuter school. It serves a population with a high percentage (about 40%) of working adults who go part-time. It has a very low graduation rate (only 4% after four years, 20% after six years) for two main reasons: the fact that so many students do go part-time, and thus take many years to graduate; and the fact that many of the students are simply not prepared to do college work (the average ACT is 18), and therefore either drop out or have to take several years worth of remedial courses.</p>
<p>I briefly taught there as an adjunct in the late 1980s, and the students I encountered were bright, inquisitive, and hard-working; but it was an upper-division course, so I would not have seen students who were not ready for college and had dropped out.</p>
<p>You can get a good education there, if you decide that’s what you want to do and work at it. If you live in the city and don’t qualify for a big aid award at Loyola or DePaul or UIC or Roosevelt, it’s probably your best affordable four-year option.</p>