Northeastern University

I was so excited when I got accepted to this PhD program. However, it soon became clear that this was a place filled with White, liberal professors who only pretended to accept diversity.

As a first gen Asian immigrant, I had to work full time. I was told by my advisor, Maureen Kelleher, that I was doing too much and should quit my job. I did not have a scholarship or wealthy parents to help me.

I had entered the program wanting to research trans individuals and the socio-psychological experiences of their transition. No professor would touch the topic area because they deemed it too controversial. They told me to do ?parade violence? instead, of which I had no interests. I had to agree to it in order to put together a committee.

I then approached Silvia Dominguez to be on my committee. I will never forget the most insulting and intrusive question anyone had ever asked me. She asked if I had ever been a victim of violence.

I thought it was unusual to ask a student such a question, so I asked why that was important for her to know. She said it?s because I needed to be a victim of violence in order to study violence.

I didn?t feel comfortable in telling her that my father suffered from PTSD from Vietnam. I was a victim of violence nearly every night till I moved out at 17. I Witnessed him shoot a bullet at my mother once. Was this something anyone would feel comfortable telling a professor???

This is just one example I can give when I say that these people are White, out-of-touch liberals who only know about minority experiences through what they ?research?.

I will never forget my time at NEU and would never recommend someone to go there if they are looking for a diverse, inclusive environment. If you?re already there, my recommendation to you is to play their game in order to finish. Don?t give up.

Only there to take your money. Does not give you your transcript when you need in emergency, instead sends you irrelevant charges to pay that does not belong to you. When confronted, different members of the staff keeps on escalating the situation on different departments. Even after paying thousands of dollars and travelling thousands of miles from home, they don't listen to your claims, instead they ask to rather pay the charges to pass the length process to avoid mental stress. In a way we students should pay the unnecessary and false charges initiated by their staff which they cannot explain. Even academically, it's curricular is not up to the mark as it is hyped by their marketing. Overall try to skip this university, it is not worth it.

I decided to go to NEU for My Masters in Engineering Management while working full time and it is probably the most disappointing experience ever. They advertise these options for certificates and all of these awesome classes that seem interesting. I go there expecting to be able to take some of these classes that I felt related to my job perfectly and get one of these certificates too only to find out that 2 out of these 3 classes are not even offered and that one of them is not available after 5. The worse part is that the majority of the other options are also not available after 5. Oh the low blow is that I can't even get this certificate that was so appealing to me because I have top take 4 of theses electives that are no available to me because I work 9 to 5. If you want to go to school while working this is not the place for you. My friends who decided to go to BU are way better off and are actually getting an education that is worth their money.

I find the program not so challenging. They advertise heavily on available CO-OP opportunities and I have tried getting across them from last 4 months for no avail. They won't get back to you so easily.

Next the level of courses are not adequate to find jobs in the industry. There faculty is mostly adjunct who work in the industry and are laid back and not enthusiastic. If you do not want to spoil you GPA stay away from these 2 professors

a- IRINA KULINETS
B- ANNA TARANOVAWord of Advise: Ask them to give you reference of students who got CO-OP opportunities through them. I was given website address like careerbuilder and monster. Did I just spend over $35000.00 in tution to find this? Hmmmm...

My GOD. Please read this carefully anyone who is even considering this god forsaken piece of shit they call a school. First off, the SHAFT, yes it is done very frequently, the admins will go out of their way to try to screw students up the ass. I tried to cancel my insurance which was, for some reason forced upon me despite the fact that i already had far superior coverage. It was a nightmare. I ended up sending a least 20 emails, making at least ten calls and visiting three different offices at least five times apiece.

The Masters Of IS program offers nothing new from Undergraduate programs and they curve grades. I've heard the same from another undergraduate student from my hometown that's transferred out of another program: in terms of grade curving.

I would look at other private universities that have smaller class sizes, and that offer challenging programs(that give you a reason to want to do the coursework instead of repeating undergraduate work) that rely on your actual ability.

I went to an undergraduate program that didn't curve grades, reinforced teamwork(grade curving just introduces politics and backstabbing other students), and had challenging classes(they used end of year feedback in addition to test scores to determine if the program was good instead of a bell curve.)It's a large university so the student body was a mix of friendly with a dash of arrogance.