<p>Like the title says, my post is mainly for anyone who studied computer engineering at NEU but any advice would be helpful.</p>
<p>How good would you say the Computer Engineering department is at Northeastern? Initially, I was deadset on Northeastern - I liked the campus, Boston, and got lots of financial aid. </p>
<p>However, recently I attended the NEU open house for computer engineering. Honestly, I was underwhelmed by their presentation of the core academics. In my opinion, I thought they focused too much on the Co-op (not saying that Co-op isn't important) and not enough on the actual classes. Granted, the open house was delayed by a day due to the recent events in Boston so it could have been disorganized.</p>
<p>So anyway, is the comp. eng core academics at NEU any good? Compared to say, BU or UMass Lowell?</p>
<p>I’m also interested in this question as a prospective student of both NEU and BU. I too was dead set on NEU. I think the reality is that NEU is going to focus heavily on the co-op because that’s their thing. I applied to BU’s CS major in their college of arts and sciences which was incredibly underwhelming upon visiting. I have not seen BU’s college of engineering but I recently started comparing them with NEU and I feel like I’m back to the drawing board on making a decision.</p>
<p>At a welcome day, they’re going to emphasize what makes the university stand out. At Northeastern, that means co-op. But co-op cannot exist without strong academics, and Northeastern does have that. I have always felt like my classes have been well-taught and challenging.</p>
<p>My daughter just finished her freshman year in computer engineering. She had also seriously considered BU. Academically, they seemed similar. Co-op is what made Northeastern really stand out. As a freshman, she has had amazing opportunities at Northeastern, including doing research in a lab (which she will continue over the summer). Northeastern also has more opportunities for international study, especially in engineering.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for their input! Nanotech and krnBoston, it’s good to hear that Northeastern still has good classes despite focusing on co-op. Nanotech, that makes a lot of sense - Northeastern has to have strong academics in order to have a co-op program as after all, how could a company hire you if you didn’t learn anything from that college? Hopefully I don’t seem like a parrot, but I decided that the co-op opportunities at Northeastern were too good to pass up so I will be enrolling into Northeastern.</p>
<p>Applebot, best of luck. I just visited BU today - beautiful campus - but I felt it was too large, so I might have to compete more for opportunities if I attended. Actually, I have a friend at NEU for computer science and he says it’s great! (he’s just a freshmen, so he didn’t have a co-op) I hope that helped a little.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>YelpMan, I’m glad to hear you’ve made a decision… the clock is ticking for me! I also visited BU’s college of engineering a couple of days ago and was pretty interested in what students and professors had to say about their program, especially in comparison to the CS major in the college of arts and sciences. Overall, it didn’t make my decision much easier.</p>
<p>krnBoston, how do you draw on the conclusion that NEU has more international study opportunities for undergrad engineering students than BU? Thanks!</p>