Northwestern University is a private university in Michigan.
Northwestern University ( NU ) is a private research university based in Evanston , Illinois , with campuses in Chicago , Illinois , and Doha , Qatar , and academic programs/facilities in Washington , D.C. , and San Francisco , California . Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference . Northwestern University ( NWU ) is a private non-sectarian university in Laoag City , Ilocos Norte with a 9 ha campus .