Northeastern in Silicon Valley brings 125 years of innovative education to the region, where the world's brightest minds push the boundaries of technology. Our master's programs each offer a variety of specialization tracks to allow students from diverse professional backgrounds to pursue their own unique goals. With a focus on technology and engineering, we offer programs for both skilled practitioners looking to advance their expertise or add a new area of focus, as well as career-changers planning a shift into STEM from other fields. Our location in downtown San Jose is situated for maximum access to the thriving economy of Silicon Valley as well as the culturally rich San Francisco Bay Area.
Our enrollment team hosts regularly scheduled virtual connect events where you can learn more about our campus.
We’d love to see you at one of these upcoming events.
Meet the Campus: Silicon Valley
Wednesday, January 29 | 5–6 p.m. PST
Local Northeastern staff are excited to share more about students' experiences at Northeastern in Silicon Valley. Join us to hear more about the city, student support, extracurricular activities, workshops, and career development.
Experience Silicon Valley
Tuesday, February 18 | 6–7 p.m. PST
Wednesday, June 25 | 4–5 p.m. PDT
Many students at Northeastern in Silicon Valley are living in the city (and often the U.S.) for the first time. Join enrollment staff to learn more about the city from those who live here. We are excited to introduce you to the city of San Jose, our neighborhood downtown, and the wider Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area (and the difference between the two).
Meet the Dean: Silicon Valley
Monday, March 3 | 5–6 p.m. PST
Join us for a conversation with Caroline Simard, the regional dean of the Silicon Valley campus. Dean Simard has built a career at the intersection of academia, the tech industry, and social impact.
We're glad you're considering Northeastern in Silicon Valley for your graduate studies, and we look forward to seeing you at a virtual campus connect soon.
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and more than 4,500 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.