Accreditation

Northwood University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Authorized use

Northwood University provides this website to support its mission and to be of service to students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, supporters, and the public. Use of this website for any purposes other than that for which it is intended is unauthorized and prohibited.

Copyright

This site and all information and images within it are copyrighted to Northwood University.

EEO

Northwood University also may make employment information available through this site. Northwood University is an equal opportunity employer. Northwood University provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability. Northwood University’s policy relates to all phases of employment including recruitment, placement, promotion, training, demotion, transfer, layoff, recall and termination, rates of pay, employee benefits and participation in all organization-sponsored employee activities.

Links to third-party sites

This site may contain links to sites owned or operated by parties other than Northwood University. Such links are provided for your reference only. Northwood University does not control outside sites and is not responsible for their content. Northwood University’s inclusion of links to an outside site does not imply any endorsement of the material on the site or, unless expressly disclosed otherwise, any sponsorship, affiliation or association with its owner, operator or sponsor.

Non-discrimination

Northwood University is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of Race, Color, Religion, Age, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Expression, National Origin, Marital Status, Height, Weight, Disability, Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Privacy

Northwood University is committed to protecting your privacy. We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. The information received from Google Analytics is used only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. The Google Analytics tool does not reveal to Northwood your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. If you don’t want Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics browser add-on.

When you submit any information via this web site, you can be confident that it is safe and secure. Information shared by individuals on applications, forms or surveys is used solely by the appropriate university office and may be shared with 3rd parties that legally adhere to industry security standards.

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.

For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.

SMS

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

Disclaimer

Northwood University hopes you find the information on this site helpful, but the information is provided “as is,” and we make no representations or warranties of any kind regarding it.