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Northern Kentucky University is a public metropolitan university in Highland Heights, Kentucky, just seven miles southeast of downtown Cincinnati. Renowned for cybersecurity, informatics, health innovation, business, and law.
NKU houses the College of Informatics, the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, and the College of Health and Human Services. The College of Informatics is housed in the $50M Griffin Hall, featuring the Digitorium and a full cyber threat operations center.
Undergraduate admissions evaluate high school unweighted GPA (minimum 2.75 for standard admission; test-optional). Graduate degree programs require an accredited bachelor's degree with 2.75 to 3.0 GPA, personal statement, and letters of recommendation.
NSA-designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense utilizing Griffin Hall's virtual cyber range to study penetration testing, cloud forensics, and malware reverse engineering.
ABA-accredited legal curriculum at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, focusing on digital privacy regulations, artificial intelligence liability, patent prosecution, and digital evidence.
CAHIIM-accredited program combining clinical analytics, electronic medical records governance, healthcare cybersecurity, and population health data visualization.
Hands-on instruction in industrial robotics, automated manufacturing systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and sensor instrumentation.
Mastery of Python data wrangling, machine learning models, statistical hypothesis testing, and big data visualization in the Digitorium.
NKU's highest undergraduate scholarship awarded to incoming freshmen who embody academic excellence, innovative problem solving, and public service leadership.
President of Northern Kentucky University
Office of the President
Dr. Cady Short-Thompson serves as the 7th President of NKU, an expert in communication studies, political rhetoric, and metropolitan university workforce alignm...
View researcher profile ↗Dean of the College of Informatics and Professor of Computer Science
College of Informatics
Dr. Kevin Kirby conducts research in computational intelligence, neural networks, biological computation models, and interdisciplinary informatics pedagogy....
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Information Security
Department of Computer Science
Dr. James Walden investigates software vulnerability economics, automated source code security auditing, and web application threat defense....
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