Northeastern University

Northeastern University is a private, non-profit university founded in 1898 in Boston, where it began as an evening institute for working men and grew into a global institution with a signature cooperative education model: students alternate periods of study with paid professional practice, so that design and engineering briefs arrive from real clients rather than from textbooks. Its main campus sits in the Fenway and Roxbury area of the city, with further campuses across the United States and in London and Toronto.

Design is taught inside the College of Arts, Media and Design, whose Division of Design covers architecture and landscape architecture, art and design, and experience design, with a Center for Design acting as the platform for interdisciplinary research and SCOUT, a student-run studio, as its link to the university’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The college also runs masters programmes in architecture and design for advanced practice, and its research spans visualisation, health, urban systems and the design of public services.