Northeastern University Opens Campus in uptown

WSOC, October 31, 2011

Uptown Charlotte is now home to a new university campus from Boston. Massachusetts-based Northeastern University is setting up its first regional campus in Charlotte for some very specific reasons, and the school’s president said he hopes to fill a gap for the city’s future.

One of the big reasons Northeastern chose Charlotte is because it has a lot of college-educated workers in finance, energy and healthcare, but not a lot of graduate degrees around to get them to the next level in their careers.

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