Northern Illinois University

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Northern Illinois University - public university in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. This university is the 692^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of universities and the 457^th most popular university in English Wikipedia. Article “Northern Illinois University” in English Wikipedia has 66.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 49 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.36 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 457^th most popular in universities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 692^nd most popular in universities.

In June 2025 the article “Northern Illinois University” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Northern Illinois University”, its content was written by 414 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 611 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Northern Illinois University is on the 457^th place in local ranking of universities in English Wikipedia and on the 692^nd place in global ranking of universities in all the time.

The article is cited 1794 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3063 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1589 in February 2008
• Global: #5631 in February 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7052 in February 2008
• Global: #13801 in February 2008

There are 24 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Northern Illinois University		66.2434
2	Indonesian (id) Universitas Illinois Utara		60.3473
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة شمال إلينوي		51.5231
4	Uzbek (uz) Shimoliy Illinois universiteti		46.7638
5	Chinese (zh) 北伊利诺伊大学		30.9955
6	Norwegian (no) Northern Illinois University		28.2563
7	Lithuanian (lt) Šiaurės Ilinojaus universitetas		19.9981
8	Esperanto (eo) Nord-Ilinojsa Universitato		18.1946
9	Spanish (es) Universidad del Norte de Illinois		16.7345
10	Belarusian (be) Паўночна-Ілінойскі ўніверсітэт		14.8674

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Northern Illinois University		2 009 473
2	Chinese (zh) 北伊利诺伊大学		39 334
3	German (de) Northern Illinois University		24 342
4	Spanish (es) Universidad del Norte de Illinois		20 645
5	French (fr) Université du Nord de l'Illinois		17 799
6	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Północnego Illinois		15 700
7	Korean (ko) 노던일리노이 대학교		11 679
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه ایلینوی شمالی		11 117
9	Thai (th) มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์เทิร์นอิลลินอย		10 861
10	Norwegian (no) Northern Illinois University		4 441

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Northern Illinois University		6 174
2	Indonesian (id) Universitas Illinois Utara		308
3	Chinese (zh) 北伊利诺伊大学		228
4	Simple English (simple) Northern Illinois University		126
5	German (de) Northern Illinois University		99
6	Spanish (es) Universidad del Norte de Illinois		58
7	Thai (th) มหาวิทยาลัยนอร์เทิร์นอิลลินอย		52
8	French (fr) Université du Nord de l'Illinois		47
9	Korean (ko) 노던일리노이 대학교		47
10	Norwegian (no) Northern Illinois University		30

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Northern Illinois University		414
2	German (de) Northern Illinois University		39
3	French (fr) Université du Nord de l'Illinois		27
4	Norwegian (no) Northern Illinois University		21
5	Chinese (zh) 北伊利诺伊大学		17
6	Polish (pl) Uniwersytet Północnego Illinois		15
7	Spanish (es) Universidad del Norte de Illinois		12
8	Italian (it) Northern Illinois University		12
9	Simple English (simple) Northern Illinois University		9
10	Turkish (tr) Kuzey Illinois Üniversitesi		8

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Northern Illinois University		2
2	Galician (gl) Universidade do Norte de Illinois		1
3	Arabic (ar) جامعة شمال إلينوي		0
4	Belarusian (be) Паўночна-Ілінойскі ўніверсітэт		0
5	German (de) Northern Illinois University		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Nord-Ilinojsa Universitato		0
7	Spanish (es) Universidad del Norte de Illinois		0
8	Persian (fa) دانشگاه ایلینوی شمالی		0
9	Finnish (fi) Pohjois-Illinoisin yliopisto		0
10	French (fr) Université du Nord de l'Illinois		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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