The best thing about Northeastern is the Co-op program, which allows a student to alternate between taking classes and working in their chosen field. This is a great resume builder, and many students already have jobs with which they're familiar once they leave school. One disadvantage to this is that there are no summer vacations after the freshman year. Also, students should be aware that the co-op program extends the undergraduate program to a period of five years instead of the normal four.
Students should also be aware that Northeastern is located in the heart of Back Bay in Boston, so an enjoyment of city life is a must! Northeastern isn't really a party school though. Depending on the major, it can be a pretty intense workload.
I would recommend Northeastern University to anyone who is hardworking and serious about starting a career on the right foot.
Boston is a great place to go to school, and Northeastern offered everything I could have imagined. Great student body, great campus (in the city), and great classes and teachers. Pros - you're in Boston close to everything. Con - apartment parties become uncomfortably filled. Make sure you check out Harvard square across the charles river!
I would highly recommend this university based on the importance they place on real world experience as part of your education. The highly developed co-op program is the best reason to attend Northeastern University. While it adds an extra year to the time taken for a degree, the experience you gain and the development of your resume and background from your time working more than compensates for this time. Northeastern graduates are highly employable, and many have excellent job prospects even before graduation due to the connections they make on co-op. The location of the school is excellent as well, both for the cultural and living benefits of living in a city like Boston, and the amount and variety of companies operating in the area, many of which are heavily involved in training students through the co-op program.
Northeastern is a wonderful college in the city of Boston. I would recommend the school to anyone who would like to live in the city. It has a great engineering school and a diverse school of arts and sciences. The sports are great too, and the student involvement is amazing, there are over 150 clubs/organizations to join. It also offers the co-op program, to introduce students into the working world. People on co-op go to NU for 5 years, 6 months in school, 6 months at work.The one con is probably that there is not much parking and some surrounding areas are the safest, otherwise it a great school I would recommend to everyone.
I went to Northeastern University for their CO-OP program, something that I really didn't take advantage of while I was there. It's the kind of program that you get out of it as much as you give. The co-ops that I had pretty much everyone in the School of Communications had; they were very general, administrative positions that were not meant to prepare you for anything in particular except how to conduct yourself more professionally in a business environment. At the time, Communications was a haven for those students who really didn't know what they wanted to do - so the CO-OPs definitely reflected that. The scope and definition of communication was changing very quickly then - we were on the cusp of Workplace 2000 and the digital age of editing and movie making was still very new. I understand things are far more advanced there now than ever before.
I do believe that a university, especially an institution like NU that strives to appeal to the "business class" of New England, should offer it's alumni more than just magazine after magazine and donation requests. NU has just begun to create a "post alumni" business offering.
Overall I believe the education was fair, we didn't get much exposure to the communications industry here besides some homogenous co-op positions; now internships are much more frequent and many much more specialized schools have entered the arena.
This school is what you make it. There are so many opportunities available and once you start taking advantage of them you'll have the best time of your life.
I've been very happy with the level of education I have received. Most courses are offered online which fits well with my hectic schedule. I have not attended any classes at the main campus but have used 2 alternate campuses in addition to the online campus.
While scores on the Math portion of the SAT have remained fairly consistent over the past 40 years for men, their average Verbal scores have dropped about 30 points.
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