北肯塔基州大学（Northern Kentucky University，缩写为NKU）是一座位于美国肯塔基州海兰黑茨的一所州立男女共学的大学。虽然它位于肯塔基州，但是俄亥俄州辛辛那堤位于它西北约11千米。北肯塔基州大学主要是一座博雅教育本科学校，但是它也有研究生院。目前大学共有1.5万多名学生，其中1.3万名为本科生，2000多名研究生。它是辛辛那堤都市地区的第三大学校，是肯塔基八所州立大学中建校最晚的一座，不过它不是最后加入州立大学系统的。路易斯维尔大学是1970年加入州立大学系统的。在《福布斯》2009年“美国最佳学院”列表中北肯塔基州大学列600所大学中第517名。

Northern Kentucky University is a public, co-educational university in northern Kentucky located in Highland Heights, seven miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The university is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution, but it also features graduate programs. Total enrollment at the university currently exceeds 15,000 students, with over 13,000 undergraduate students and over 2,000 graduate students served by nearly 2600 faculty and staff. Northern Kentucky University is the third largest university, behind the University of Cincinnati and Miami University, but before Xavier University, of Greater Cincinnati's four large, four-year universities and the youngest of Kentucky's eight state universities, although it is not the last to join the state system, as the University of Louisville did not become a state university until 1970.