Regardless of where they go, our alumni take with them the critical thinking, creativity, and
responsibility they need to navigate the challenges and opportunities that await them. A lifelong
love of learning, integrity, sense of community, concern for others, civility, leadership - all of these
traits exemplify our Portrait of a Graduate and ensure that every person who moves beyond our
doors will not only have the tools to succeed academically, but also in all other aspects of their life.
Recent graduates of Near North attended the following colleges and Universities:
American University (Washington, D.C.)
Bard College (Dutchess County, New York)
Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)
Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island)
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
Chapman University (Orange, California)
Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, Georgia)
Colgate University (Hamilton, New York)
Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
DePaul University (Chicago)
Duke Kunshan University (Suzhou, China)
Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, Florida)
Elon University (Elon, North Carolina)
Emerson College (Boston, Massachusetts)
Fordam University (New York City)
Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
Hamilton College (Clinton, New York)
Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, Indiana)
Indiana University Bloomington, Kelly School of Business (Bloomington, Indiana)
Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company (Ga'aton, Israel)
Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois)
Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Oregon)
Loyola University (Chicago)
Macalester College (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
McGill University (Quebec, Canada)
Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan)
Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
The New School (New York City)
The New School, Eugene Lang College (New York City)
The New School, Parsons Paris (Paris, France)
The New School, Parsons School of Design (New York City)
Northeastern University (Chicago)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
Northwestern University, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (Evanston, Illinois)
Oberlin College and Conservatory (Oberlin, Ohio)
Oxford College of Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)
Pitzer College (Claremont, California)
Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York)
Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, Rhode Island)
Richmond University (Richmond, Virginia)
Sarah Lawrence College (Yonkers, New York)
Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, Georgia)
Scripps College (Claremont, California)
Seton Hall (South Orange, New Jersey)
Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois)
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago)
Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)
Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts)
Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana)
University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles)
University of Arizona, College of Architecture (Tucson, Arizona)
University of Colorado Boulder, Leeds School of Business (Boulder, Colorado)
University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
University of Montana (Missoula, Montana)
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School (Philadelphia)
University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wisconsin)
Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, Indiana)
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)