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Northwestern University

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NUUniwersytet NorthwesternMcCormick School of Engineering

Northwestern University (NU) — private research university in Evanston, Illinois, established in 1851 (Illinois's oldest chartered university). 22,800 students, 4,018 faculty, $15.3B endowment. Affiliated with 37 Nobel laureates. Center for Robotics and Biosystems + Rubenstein Lab — home to Phantom Twist (RSS 2026), Kilobot, and other swarm-robotics systems.

Founded1851
Total fundingEndowment $15.3B (2025). Annual budget $3.3B (2024, excluding health system). Research funding over $1B per year. Largest single donation in the university's history: Ryan Family $480M (2021) for the Kellogg School of Management, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Ryan Field renovation.1 · 2024
ValuationEndowment $15.3B (2025), annual budget $3.3B🦄2025
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01 · About

Northwestern University

Founded 1851

Founders

  • John Evans + 8 zalozycieli

    Methodist co-founders (1850-1851)

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 2 technologies · 2 industries
What they do2Areas
  • Agent systems
  • Data analytics
How they do it2Technologies
  • Agentic AI
  • LLM
Who for2Industries
  • Research & science
  • Software & Technology
03 · Geography

Global presence

3 regions
USANorth AmericaGlobal
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 1851 · grant
1851founded
Endowment $15.3B (2025). Annual budget $3.3B (2024, excluding health system). Research funding over $1B per year. Largest single donation in the university's history: Ryan Family $480M (2021) for the Kellogg School of Management, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Ryan Field renovation.total funding
grantlatest round
growthdevelopment stage
activestatus
Endowment $15.3B (2025). Annual budget $3.3B (2024, excluding health system). Research funding over $1B per year. Largest single donation in the university's history: Ryan Family $480M (2021) for the Kellogg School of Management, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Ryan Field renovation.
total funding
1 · 2024
grantJanuary 2024
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

3 strategic relations · 4 brands

Strategic relations

3
  • partner
  • partner
  • partner
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

3 classification · 4 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagegrowth
  • Organization typeUniversity lab+ Research institute, + AI Lab

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

1 articles
Phantom Twist: a drone nearly invisible to the human eye
News18 July 2026

Phantom Twist: a drone nearly invisible to the human eye

Northwestern University researchers presented Phantom Twist at RSS 2026 — it spins at 15–25 Hz, making it over 10x harder to spot than a standard quadrotor. Shape algorithmically optimized using the LPIPS perceptual metric.