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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER NORTHEASTERN Pros Top notch facilities; excellent internship program; beautiful urban campus; on-campus recruiting; and Boston. Cons Its expensive but so are most private schools. The Bottom Line Northeastern is a great choice for any smart highly motivated student. The best programs are Computer Science, Engineering, Health Sciences, and Business. This review is was created as result of my own experience as an NU student and various resources that I found online. Enjoy. NORTHEASTERN: For those of you whose knowledge of NU is several years old, this a completely different school than it was just a few years ago. What was once a commuter school with an average campus has been transformed into an emerging national research university with state of the art academic, research, athletic, and residence facilities. Northeastern is a school on the upswing. The president of the university has made it his goal to make NU one of the top 100 schools in the country, and NU is well on its way. The school has already spend hundreds of millions of dollars building up the campus including tripling the amount of housing on campus and upgrading athletic and academic facilities. The school has also doubled its research spending. Academic changes include a switch to a 4x4 semester program that will result in 40% more class time. The school has also switched from being a five year school and added more four year and five year options (not that this really matters becuase you don't pay tuition when your own co-op). Co-op is not required for art & science majors--although most A&S students choose to participate anyway. Follow this link to learn more about schools and graduation requirements: http://www.admissions.neu.edu/colmajors.html Co-op The co-op program has also been strengthened with the addition of more fortune 500 companies and co-ops abroad in England, France, Hong Kong. View employers here: http://www.coop.neu.edu/empsites.html New construction projects are underway including a new health sciences center, parking garage, state of the art admissions facility, computer science building, more classrooms and massive dorm projects. Examples: New Residence halls, classrooms, and computer science facility.1 Construction to begin in the spring of 2002: http://www.rawnarch.com/design5.html New Health Science building, Residence Hall, admissions center, and garage): http://www.rothmanpartners.com/port.htm Just completed: West Village Residence Halls: http://www.rawnarch.com/selproj2.html Infocommons: http://www.voice.neu.edu/001011/infocommons.html Davenport Residence Halls: http://www.voice.neu.edu/010925/davenport.html http://www.voice.neu.edu/010515/dorms.html Future plans: Biotech: http://www.voice.neu.edu/011113/biotech.html Afr. Institute: http://www.voice.neu.edu/010515/institute.html RANKINGS: Northeastern has many well ranked programs. First, U.S. News Ranks Northeastern #1 for co-ops and interships: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/acadprogs/acadprogs07_brief.php Other rankings include: 1. Princeton Review Best 345 Colleges 2. Ranked in the top 60 for engineering by U.S. News and graduates online: http://www.graduateshotline.com/ranks/ 3. Ranked in the top 30 for EE by the NRC: http://members.tripod.com/vickydesai/industrial_engi.htm 4. Ranked #1 by Computer World for High Tech Business: http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO42377,00.html 5. Ranked as one of the top entreprenuership programs by Success Magazine: http://www.bschool.com/entrepreneur.html 6. Rated as one of the "Best Buys in College Education" by Barrons: http://www.lrc.edu/home/barron.htm Northeastern also performs well in the annual business beanpot case competitions against BC, BU, Babson and MIT, The competition is judged by area recruiters and corp. executives. Northeastern usually wins: 1997: http://www.nunews.neu.edu/nu-news/Issues/030597/030597n3.htm 1998 http://web.cba.neu.edu/alumni/breport/1997/beanpot.htm 1999: http://www.voice.neu.edu/990223/BreakingNews.html 2000: http://www.whatsnew.neu.edu/beanpot000221.html 2001 http://www.dailyfreepress.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=37189& LOCATION: The best part of Northeastern is that it’s located in the heart of Boston's Fenway Cultural District. Follow this link to Fenway Cultural District site: http://www.fenwayculture.org/ As you can see, this area includes the Museum of Fine Arts (across the street from the west campus dorms) a beautiful park; movie theaters; restaurants and cafe’s; and Fenway Park (home of the Red Sox). The City of Boston is currently working on a complete rebuild of the area including renovating the trolley system that services the area and street and sidewalk improvements. The campus itself is very nice with tree lined walkways and small grassy quads. Campus tour: http://www.neu.edu/tour/ And for you Art lovers, the Museum of Fine Arts just announced a $400 million dollar expansion project: http://www.mfa.org/newmuseum/index.html Admission to the museum is free to NU students. STUDENT LIFE: Since NU is no longer a commuter school, student life has dramatically improved. Attendance at athletic events is way up and there are noticeably more students in the student center at night and walking around campus. Student organizations vary from fraternities and sororities to ski and hiking clubs. Parties mainly take place in nice off-campus apartments on Hemenway and Gainsborough streets. However, be wary of the NU police who are constantly patrolling the area and will sometimes crash parties. There are also numerous bars in the area and on Landsdowne Street. PLACEMENT: The starting salaries for NU grads coming out of the engineering, computer science, and health professions, and business schools are between $50,000-$75,000 with most students getting hired by one of their co-op employers! Some grads even earn as much as $90,000. This may sound crazy but some engineering, biotech, and computer science firms will pay top dollar for graduates who have already proven themselves on co-op. While NU may not be as highly regarded as schools like MIT or Caltech, the co-op experience more than makes up for what NU gives away to other schools in prestige. The placement rate last year was 92% (2001) which is equal to or better than most top 10 schools. View stats here (2001): http://www.coop.neu.edu/nustats.html GRAD SCHOOL PLACEMENT: Harvard Business School: http://www.commvest.com/management.html http://www.veridiem.com/about/directors.html http://www.easyask.com/company/management.cfm Wharton: http://www.tiaonline.org/media/press_releases/index.cfm?parelease=01-164 University of Chicago: http://www.tridentcap.com/teams/Venetia.html MIT : http://www.globalventurenetwork.com/organizer.htm http://www.pitt.edu/~jordan/cv.short.html http://www.integral-inc.com/affiliates/tushman_bio.htm Harvard Law School: http://www.hklaw.com/Biographies/Bio.asp?id=76718 http://www.skadden.com/siteindex.htm Columbia Business School: http://www.canesta.com/Management.htm#Mike Van Meter University Resource Use: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 27 2003 4th Year Male -- Class 2002    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=5549&uid=592'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Average My worst experience with them is with their housing department. They have you fill out a survey, so they can place you with compatible roommates. I, being a non smoker, said that I would want a roommate that does not smoke. Of course, they stuck me with the biggest pot head in the college. When I try multiple attempts to change rooms, all my requests were ignore, they didn't even bother to reply to any emails or phone calls.Later on, when I was trying to get housing for the next quarter, I was again ignored. They con me into giving them a deposit and after they charge my credit card, they were never to be heard again. Phone calls and emails were ignored again. I stop by at the office in person, and they told me the lady in charge were out for lunch. Since I had a job to go to, I couldn't stay and wait, so I left her a written message to call me back. Like every other form I submitted, it probably found its place in the recycling bin. Of course, I never got my housing assignment and was force to commute to school everyday. Then when I try to get my deposit back, they told me I had to write a petition letter and they would respond in 3-5 business days. So I did, and its been almost 2 weeks now, and I am still waiting for a response... University Resource Use: B+, Useful Schoolwork: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 27 2003 2nd Year Male -- Class 2006    Forward  Blog it! 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