National-Louis University contains 3 colleges: National College of Education; College of Arts & Sciences; College of Management and Business. The University enrolls more than 14,110 students. Female students contains 77% of the student body. 54% of all students study part-time. Average age for undergraduate students are 36 years and 38 for graduate.

National-Louis University offers 19 bachelors, 30 masters, 11 post Master's Certificate of Advanced Study, 4 post Master's Education Specialist and 8 Doctoral degrees.8 fully online programs are available in NLU.

NLU’s bachelor and master’s degrees are stepping stones to advanced professional degree programs at schools such as the University of Illinois at Chicago; Loyola University (Chicago);  the University of Nebraska; Northwestern University; John Marshall Law School (Chicago); the University of Alabama; and Auburn University

Campuses are in Illinois: Downtown Chicago, Skokie, Lisle, Wheeling and Elgin; Wisconsin: Milwaukee and Beloit;  Florida: Tampa; Poland: Nowy Sacz.

NLU’s M.A. in Psychology is the largest, non-clinical master’s degree program in the state of Illinois - and about 40 percent of the students in the program are African-American or Latino/Hispanic. Besides, NLU ranks 1st in the state of Illinois for the number of graduate degrees in education conferred.

The University has strong tradition of service to urban, immigrant and minority populations