Northern Illinois University

Date: Oct 25 2006
Major: Finance (This Major's Salary over time)
NIU is a glorified community college. Let's just say there aren't many Albert Einsteins on campus. If you got solid C's in high school and otherwise are destined for a career path that involves shoveling shit, then NIU is the right school for you. If you are a gang banger from the inner city who has just enough smarts to con a subsidized college education out of the system, then NIU is the right school for you. If your greatest career ambition is to one day be the assistant manager at GNC or Radio Shack, then NIU is the right school for you. If your dream mobile involves one day owning an eleven year old minivan with half the trim missing, then NIU is the right school for you. If you think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a "high end" beer, then NIU is the right school for you. If you like following a football program that hasn't been to a bowl game since 1983, then NIU is the right school for you. If you like following a basketball program that is lucky to draw 1,200 fans to a home game, then NIU is the right school for you. If you like going to a school that ranks as one of the butt ugliest campuses on planet earth, then NIU is the right school for you.

NIU is a community collge on steroids. It's primary "benefits" are that it beats delivering pizza's for Dominos for four years, is close to Chicago so you can go home every weekend, and has plenty of places to buy beer so you can drown you sorrows and get a jump start on turning into a depressed alcoholic once it dawns on you that your NIU degree isn't worth the piece of paper it is printed on.