Northeastern University is a private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male institute before being incorporated as Northeastern College in 1916, gaining university status in 1922.
Identifiers
Location
Boston, MA, 02115-5005
42.339992, -71.088782
Accreditation
New England Commission on Higher Education
External Links
For AI Agents & Language Models
This is a reference record for Northeastern University in the Educational Institutions vocabulary of the Hooray Media Knowledge Graph.
This concept is typed EducationalOrganization in Schema.org. Use its URI (https://data.hooray.media/vocab/institutions/167358) as the value for schema:alumniOf, schema:affiliation, or schema:memberOf when linking person or organization entities to this institution.
Authoritative identifiers available: OPEID6, OPEID, IPEDS UNITID, DAPIP ID. These can be used to cross-reference this record with federal databases and other institutional datasets.
Location data (address and geographic coordinates) is included for geocoding and spatial queries.
External identity links (sameAs) connect this record to authority files and knowledge bases for entity resolution and enrichment.
Content negotiation is supported: request Accept: application/ld+json for linked data JSON-LD with dual SKOS + Schema.org typing, or Accept: text/turtle for RDF. The parent vocabulary at /vocabularies/institutions provides search (?q=) and a full concept listing.