Retirees, MyNIU Shared Access and Sponsored Accounts
Use the box above to change your password, set up security questions or reset a forgotten password (which can only be done after setting up security questions).
Find My AccountID
Applicants / Students: To recover your AccountID, please provide the personal email address used when you applied or that is on file in PeopleSoft. If a match is found, we will send your AccountID to the provided email address.
Employees: NIU employees can retrieve their AccountID by searching the NIU Directory.
Password Criteria
- Be at least 10 characters and no more than 128 characters long.
- Not include any part of your name or AccountID.
- Must contain characters from three of the following five categories:
- Uppercase characters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase characters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s , with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Nonalphanumeric characters: ~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages
Confirm your current password.