Northeastern University retirement plans

Northeastern University, Boston, MA. EIN 04-1679980. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Northeastern University has one active retirement plan on file, the Northeastern University Retirement Plan, with 14,950 participants and $3.0 billion in assets in 2025. TIAA is its recordkeeper. No traditional pension plan appears in Northeastern University's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 14,950
Plan assets: $3.0 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: TIAA
Plans on file: 2
Industry: Education

All 2 plans

Active plans first

Northeastern University Retirement Plan

403(b)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 04-1679980
Participants (2025): 14,950
Net assets (2025): $3.0 billion
Recordkeeper: TIAAEarlier: Fidelity (2023–2024), TIAA (2022), Fidelity (2018–2021), TIAA (2016–2017), Fidelity (2009–2015)
Plan administrator: Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-2230As filed for 2025
In effect since: July 1, 1946

Plans merged into this one: Northeastern University Supplemental Retirement Plan (2016); Mills College at Northeastern Defined Contribution (2023).

Earlier plan names: Northeastern University Basic Retirement Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	14,950	$3.0 billion	TIAA
2024	14,053	$2.6 billion	Fidelity
2023	14,005	$2.3 billion	Fidelity
2022	15,894	$1.9 billion	TIAA
2021	14,499	$2.2 billion	Fidelity
2020	11,482	$2.0 billion	Fidelity
2019	10,752	$1.7 billion	Fidelity
2018	10,890	$1.5 billion	Fidelity
2017	10,254	$1.5 billion	TIAA
2016	9,061	$1.4 billion	TIAA
2015	6,369	$1.1 billion	Fidelity
2014	5,984	$1.1 billion	Fidelity
2013	6,087	$1.0 billion	Fidelity
2012	5,481	$913 million	Fidelity
2011	5,414	$826 million	Fidelity
2010	5,374	$829 million	Fidelity
2009	5,079	$764 million	Fidelity

Northeastern University Supplemental Retirement Plan

403(b)Merged

Merged. In 2016 its assets moved to the Northeastern University Retirement Plan, sponsored by Northeastern University (EIN 04-1679980, plan 001). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 04-1679980
Participants (2015): 7,025
Net assets (2015): $205 million
Recordkeeper: FidelityEarlier: TIAA (2011), Fidelity (2009–2010)
Plan administrator: Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-2111As filed for 2016
In effect since: July 1, 1964

Year by year, 2009 to 2016

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2016	0	$0	Fidelity
2015	7,025	$205 million	Fidelity
2014	7,283	$196 million	Fidelity
2013	5,555	$173 million	Fidelity
2012	4,563	$138 million	Fidelity
2011	4,320	$118 million	TIAA
2010	4,141	$108 million	Fidelity
2009	4,498	$89.4 million	Fidelity

If you had money in one of these plans

Call TIAA (tiaa.org), which runs the Northeastern University Retirement Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((617) 373-2230). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

All 2 plans

Northeastern University Retirement Plan

Northeastern University Supplemental Retirement Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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