Career counseling concentrates on helping freshmen to identify career and continuing education plans. Once goals are established, students are assisted with planning a program at Northland which can lead to success in reaching those goals. By their senior year, students are helped with job searches or with the process of gaining admission to graduate or professional school. Northland offers extensive academic, personal, and social counseling, as well as peer tutoring, a writing laboratory, a study skills center, and financial aid counseling. Faculty Northland's 50 faculty members are all primarily teachers.
Full professors teach both freshmen and upperclass students.
Faculty members serve as academic counselors, and students have opportunities for regular contact with their faculty advisors. Off-Campus Study Northland's spring term provides students with an opportunity to study throughout the United States and in other countries. During the spring term, students may also study at any of 10 institutions that participate with Northland in a college consortium. An integral part of Northland's outdoor education program is a term spent at the Audubon Center of the North Woods in Sandstone, Minnesota. Students participate in intensive field studies and outdoor education teaching techniques while at the Center, visiting area schools and nature centers to observe and teach.