Northwestern College - Bridgeview Business Programs

Located in Bridgeview, Illinois, Northwestern College - Bridgeview is a private for-profit institution. Bridgeview is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

Where Is Northwestern College - Bridgeview?

Contact details for NC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	7725 South Harlem Avenue, Bridgeview, IL 60455
Phone:	708-237-5050
Website:	www.NC.edu

How Do I Get Into NC?

You can apply to NC online at: www.nc.edu/

Admission Requirements for NC

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	neither required nor recommended
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	neither required nor recommended
College Prep Program	neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	recommended
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into NC?

Northwestern College - Bridgeview has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.Approximately 6% of accepted students are men and 94% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 80%, and the acceptance rate for women is 81%.

Can I Afford Northwestern College - Bridgeview?

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At NC, approximately 99% of students took out student loans averaging $7,706 a year. That adds up to $30,824 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at NC is 12.5%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.

Northwestern College - Bridgeview Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 462 undergraduate students at NC, with 203 being full-time and 259 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 203 full-time undergraduates at NC, 9% are male and 91% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Northwestern College - Bridgeview students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	5
Black or African American	93
Hispanic or Latino	56
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Online Learning at Northwestern College - Bridgeview

In 2019-2020, 462 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at NC has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 34th most popular in Illinois for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of NC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Northwestern College - Bridgeview was 318.6%. This is the #170 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at NC regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at NC ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at NC.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#1
Human Resource Management	#2
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping	#7
Accounting	#23
General Business Administration and Management	#71
Business Administration & Management	#80

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Northwestern College - Bridgeview Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Associate’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	1	1
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping	0	0
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	0	0
TOTAL	1	1

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.