Northern Illinois University at Oakton Community College

Northern Illinois University at Oakton Community College is an off-campus instructional site located in Des Plaines, Illinois. This site represents a partnership between Northern Illinois University (NIU), a public research university based in DeKalb, Illinois, and Oakton Community College, providing upper-division and graduate coursework to students in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

Specific program listings are not available in current IPEDS data for this location. NIU broadly offers programs in education, business, health sciences, and liberal arts, and its off-campus sites are designed to serve working adults and transfer students closer to where they live and work.

Des Plaines is a city in Cook County in northeastern Illinois, located northwest of Chicago. The Oakton Community College site enables students who have completed associate degrees to conveniently continue toward bachelor's or graduate degrees without commuting to DeKalb.