Northeast College at a glance
- Program: Doctor of Chiropractic, 10 trimesters (about 3 years 4 months)
- Main campus: 2360 State Route 89, Seneca Falls, NY
- Branch campus: 70 Division Ave, Levittown, NY (Long Island, opened October 2024)
- Formerly: New York Chiropractic College (NYCC)
Northeast's published NBCE results
Chiropractic programs are required to publish student outcomes. Northeast breaks out first-time pass rates for every NBCE exam, next to the average for all U.S. programs. Its two-year (2024–25) figures:
| Exam | Northeast first-time | All U.S. programs |
|---|---|---|
| Part I | 81% | 79% |
| Part II | 87% | 80% |
| Part III | 91% | 80% |
| Part IV | 94% | 87% |
| Physiotherapy | 98% | 89% |
The college also tracks licensing success: graduates who passed every Part or were licensed within six months. That was 89% across 2022–2025 (376 of 422), climbing to 95% for the 2025 class.
What those numbers mean for you
Read the table from the top. Part I has the lowest first-time rate, at 81%, and it's the exam you'll face first. That pattern is common across schools: Part I covers six basic-science domains in one sitting, often while you're still carrying a full trimester load. The later exams build on clinical work you do every day. Part I is a big block of material you last studied a year or more earlier.
So the Part I year is where extra practice pays off most. A first-time pass keeps you on schedule. A retake means another $710 fee and another testing window.
Planning your boards around the trimester calendar
The NBCE opens Part I to second-year students and Part II to third-year students. Part III opens within nine months of graduation, and Part IV within six. On a 10-trimester program, that puts one exam in almost every year. The NBCE's computer-based windows run nearly every month from January through November, so you can usually pick a window between trimester exams. Scheduling closes 17 days before the test date.
Part IV is different now. It is only given at the NBCE's Assessment Center in Greeley, Colorado, so students at both the Seneca Falls and Levittown campuses need to plan for travel.
Northeast's earlier years and results by Part
Northeast (formerly NYCC) used to publish its licensing results on its student outcomes page in two forms: graduates who passed all parts within six months among those who attempted an exam, and, later, all graduates who passed or were licensed. The archived pages let us list both for the classes before 2022. Some numbers were revised between editions, so the latest is shown and marked. We show only Northeast's own figures here, not other schools' averages.
| Graduating year | Passed all Parts, of graduates who attempted an exam | Passed all Parts or licensed, of all graduates |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 91.2% (155 of 170) | — |
| 2012 | 90.6% (145 of 160) | — |
| 2013 | 84.3% (145 of 172) | — |
| 2014 | 82% (142 of 173) | — |
| 2015 | 84% (136 of 161) | — |
| 2016 | 91% (147 of 161) † | — |
| 2017 | 82% (146 of 178) | 84% (152 of 182) |
| 2018 | 76% (112 of 147) | 83% (133 of 160) |
| 2019 | 83% (114 of 138) † | 89% (128 of 144) † |
| 2020 | 73% (114 of 157) | 84% (146 of 174) † |
| 2021 | — | 91% (140 of 154) † |
The same pages gave the number of Northeast candidates who passed each NBCE Part by calendar year. The college does not say whether these figures are first-time only.
Northeast (then NYCC) NBCE results by Part, number passed of number tested
| Calendar year | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | PT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72% (127 of 176) | 76% (130 of 171) | 87% (144 of 165) | 88% (145 of 165) | 95% (138 of 145) |
| 2016 | 69% (103 of 149) | 71% (100 of 140) | 80% (135 of 169) | 89% (139 of 156) | 94% (138 of 147) |
| 2017 | 75% (114 of 152) | 75% (102 of 136) | 83% (127 of 154) | 89% (142 of 159) | 93% (105 of 113) |
| 2018 | 72% (95 of 132) | 72% (68 of 94) | 83% (95 of 115) | 95% (123 of 129) | 90% (84 of 93) |
| 2019 | 78% (108 of 139) | 73% (108 of 147) | 86% (136 of 158) | 97% (129 of 133) | 86% (105 of 122) |
| 2020 | 72% (106 of 147) | 71% (81 of 114) | 79% (100 of 126) | 93% (120 of 129) | 95% (89 of 94) |
| 2021 | 63% (74 of 117) | 75% (101 of 134) | 80% (113 of 142) | 93% (127 of 136) | 95% (90 of 95) |
† The school's archived pages show more than one figure for this year. The most recent published figure is shown. A dash means the school's files do not show a figure for that year.
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Sources: Northeast College consumer information · Fall 2025 announcement · NBCE fees and deadlines. Figures as published by the college; checked September 2026. The year-by-year tables above come from the school's own published disclosures, linked here as archived copies where the current page no longer shows them: archived copy, Feb 2016 · archived copy, Jan 2017 · archived copy, Jan 2018 · archived copy, Aug 2018 · archived copy, Aug 2019 · archived copy, Dec 2020 · archived copy, Apr 2021 · archived copy, Dec 2021 · archived copy, May 2022 · archived copy, Mar 2023 · archived copy, May 2024 · archived copy, Sep 2025. ChiroEDU is independent and not affiliated with Northeast College of Health Sciences or the NBCE.