<p>Starting to consider Northeastern University as my choice of college but have a few questions about the school and the business program. First off, is D'Amore-McKim a 5 year program and what exactly is the Co-op program? I know that it's a 6-month internship but do you leave school for that period and work full-time? What are some internship possibilities? </p>
<p>In terms of the college itself, what are the parties like? I've heard that many students party at other Boston schools (MIT, BU, Harvard, etc.), but what about Northeastern parties? Frats? Also, what are the housing options for freshmen? </p>
<p>Just a couple of questions to learn more about the college. </p>
<p>Also considering UMIAMI + KELLEY (IU)</p>
<p>Waiting to hear back from UNC-CH</p>
<p>Thanks, much love. </p>
<p>Co-op: You get 6 months with no classes to work in the real world. It is a 5 year program because some students take as many as 3 co-op’s. 18 months of workforce experience on graduation is great for your resume. The jobs are usually paid and are closely related to your major. It isn’t just a job, it is a practical learning experience / environment. Someone who has gone to Northeastern (I am a HS senior planning to go for CS) or has researched the business school more than me could probably give you specific examples.</p>
<p>From my research, I didn’t get a party vibe at all. There are fraternities/sororities, but they are not a part of the main culture, and you probably wouldn’t encounter them much unless you were involved in greek life. I remember seeing in passing that around 3% of students are in greek life, but that could be wrong.</p>
<p>Freshman housing is pretty standard unless you are in honors housing. Most I beleive move off to an apartment after freshman year. Freshman are required to stay on campus their first semester but can appeal. Almost all rooms are doubles with select singles/triples, singles by request only usually.</p>
<p>Can be a four year program if you choose, but in most cases it is the same price to do five years and get the third co-op experience in. Many get offers from their last co-op, and co-op pay often increases with experience; you’d benefit from doing the 5 year I think.</p>
<p>As far as parties, from what I’ve heard it’s not huge. Boston in general is pretty tough on fake ID’s but the bar/party scene is great over 21. Though the party life at NEU is smaller, you’re in Boston; BU, MIT, other schools are in close proximity and you can party there. It’s not like you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Internship possibilities are practically endless. It depends on how much work you put in, as you basically have to get hired. You’ll need a good GPA, communication skills, etc. to land the best coop’s but there are great ones. Wall street, big 4 accounting firms; I met a business major there who is starting a co-op at Google in August. You will not at all be limited but you need to work hard to get the best internships, as you would anywhere.</p>
<p>For parties: there are plenty of parties if you want to party. Boston is basically America’s biggest college town. It doesn’t even really matter if parties are Northeastern/BU/Simmons/wherever parties. They exist. People cross college boundaries to go to parties. There is no frat housing because this is banned by Boston housing code. That’s not my scene, though, so I can’t exactly give you personal advice.</p>
<p>For housing: as @PengPhils suggested, freshmen housing is pretty standard - usually double rooms with common bathrooms (with the exception of honors housing). The requirement is actually that students live on campus for the first 2 years. After the first year, though, housing is apartment-style. There are single or double rooms sharing a kitchen, bathroom(s), and living room. (They are also saying now that they’ll guarantee housing for all 5 years now, but a lot of current students are suspicious of that since it’s currently guaranteed for 2 years).</p>
<p>Very insightful thread. Even I’m considering NU seeing the whole co-op buzz around it. I got accepted into D’amore Mckim business school with BSIB (international business-same thing?) </p>
<p>NU is undoubtedly the best in career placements. Anyone got any insights on how BSIB really works? I’ve researched through the program and I want to concentrate in Finance. </p>
<p>On housing : what’s the difference between on campus and off campus housing in terms of cost? The tuition is pretty steep and I’d like to save as much as I can 
. </p>
<p>Last thing, what are the pay rates like? I know it won’t be much but I just want to get an idea about the whole mechanism. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@Rusty34 If you are talking about co-op pay, I can be pretty significant. I know an alumni that made enough to pay for his housing/meals a majority of his education between the co-ops.</p>
<p>For many business majors, first co-op pay is between $12-$15/hour. Depends on where you work, and your qualifications. Second co-op, generally $15-$20/hour, though I’ve heard of some particularly higher.</p>
<p>I visited for the second time about a month ago. My tour guide, Sam, was a marketing major in the Honors program. His first internship was $15/hour, but he paid for transportation to and from work everyday. It was 20 minutes or so outside of Boston. His second internship was in California, paid $20/hour, provided free housing, transportation to and from work, airfare to and from California at the beginning and end of his co-op stint. Pretty sweet deal. He also got to see an Imagine Dragons concert through this, entirely for free. Pretty sweet deal.</p>
<p>Moral of that story: co-op experience varies widely. Largely depends on what you put into it.</p>
<p>Co-op pay varies a lot across majors. Business tends to be one of the highest paying, along with CS and engineering. I don’t know specifics on business pay, but many CS/engineering co-ops are at least in the $20-25 per hour range. On the other side you have the sciences, where pay is maybe $11-15 in academic labs. (But from having worked there, it’s can be a fantastic experience.) Part of BSIB, I believe, is spending at least a year abroad, including a co-op and study abroad. I have done an international co-op and really enjoyed it. The university also has a scholarship of up to $6000 for going on international co-op.</p>
<p>As for housing, on-campus does tend to be more expensive than off campus. You are partly paying for the convenience and the university resources that come with it. (i.e., something breaks and they’ll fix it almost immediately.) There are a variety of price ranges available, from single rooms to economy double rooms in apartments (economy meaning there’s no common living room).</p>
<p>To sum it all up : </p>
<p>Co-op experience varies, usually a decent pay, and looks good on resume </p>
<p>Guess I’d shift to off campus then if that is the case. </p>
<p>Another really important question is that, do I have to pay for college while doing my co-op? As you know tuition is a steep 40K dollars and I just want to know how much a student ends up paying if he does 3 co-ops in 5 years. </p>
<p>This also raises another question about intl co-ops: who pays the expenses there? . If the incidence is on the students then NU is really very expensive and would make me consider other choices. </p>
<p>No, you don’t pay tuition on co-op! That’s a very important point, given the costs. You only pay tuition while you are in classes. Whether you do a 5 year program or a 4 year program, you will still usually take 8 semesters of classes, which means 8 semesters of tuition in either case. I think it’s also worth noting that all scholarships and financial aid are set up to work based on semesters rather than full year, and summer sessions count as normal semester class time for scholarship purposes (which is not the case at most schools).</p>
<p>For international co-ops, I’m not really sure what you mean about the expenses? International co-op is just like any other co-op - a job. Some of the volunteering co-ops (like healthcare in developing countries) is not paid and you have to worry about expenses, but that will not be the case with international business. You will get paid just like you would for a co-op in the US, plus you can get the Presidential Global Scholarship on top of that (<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/globalscholars/index.html”>http://www.northeastern.edu/globalscholars/index.html</a>). I ended up making more money on my international co-op than I did on my domestic co-op, and my employer even paid for my flight!</p>
<p>By intl expenses I meant the living cost+air fare. </p>
<p>So let me get this right, just how much did you pay for each year at NU? I’m confused by the whole semester talk. (we don’t have semesters in India, we call them terms)</p>
<p>A normal “year” is two semesters: fall semester (September - December) and spring semester (January - April), and you usually take 4 classes each semester. Northeastern also has 2 half semesters in the summer: summer 1 (May-June) and summer 2 (July-August), and you take 2 classes in each of these and pay half the tuition you would for a full semester. When you go on co-op, it takes up a semester plus a half summer, so you will either be on co-op spring + summer 1, or summer 2 + fall. Generally, you will pay for 8 semester of classes, which will be divided up over fall, spring, and often some summer sessions.</p>
<p>Part of the reason for the presidential global scholarship is to help cover some of these costs for international co-op that you wouldn’t have on a domestic co-op, like airfare. For living cost, however, in most places it will actually be cheaper than in Boston.</p>
<p>@nanotechnology Thanks for clearing that up. I’m guessing i’ll have to work my ass off to be able to get the presidential scholarship. I’m really confused with my choices though. </p>
<p>I got Accepted to University of Washington into the College of Arts ans Sciences but i applied for Foster Business School. At UW i’ll probably have to spend my freshman year trying to make myself worthy of joining Foster’s. </p>
<p>Then i Have Northeastern where i’ve gotten a direct admit into D’amore Mckim which will save me a lot of time and i’ll probably be on a good track from the start.</p>
<p>I also have UC Davis ( Economics Major) to fall back on. </p>
<p>I don’t know how competitive the global scholarship is, but I am pretty sure that it is guaranteed for all honors students. The university is also really trying to encourage international co-op, so they are pushing this scholarship and want to give it to a lot of people. I got the full $6,000 when I applied and no one seemed particularly surprised by this.</p>
<p>Does everyone take classes during the summer or is that just an optional thing? Are there co-ops during the summer? </p>
<p>Whether or not you take classes in the summer usually depends on your program. Most people will take at least 1 summer session, I think.</p>
<p>Co-ops take part partially in the summer. Normal 6 month co-ops are either January - June (including spring and summer 1 semesters) or July - December (including summer 2 and fall semesters).</p>
<p>If I, accepted to the international business major am I automatically in the BSIB program?</p>
<p>BSIB is an abbreviation for Bachelor of Science in International Business. So isn’t that just another name for the same thing?
<a href=“http://damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/ugrad/bsib/”>http://damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/ugrad/bsib/</a></p>