<p>How hard is it to get into compared to the other colleges?</p>
<p>What is the average workload? Such as, how much hours per day of study, etc.</p>
<p>Do most engineering majors stay for 4 years? or possibly 4.5 and even 5?</p>
<p>What is considered a 'good' GPA?</p>
<p>Can anyone with experience enlighten me?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>I’m not in Engineering, but all the people I hang out with are engineers haha so I’ll answer a few of these.</p>
<p>They do have a lot of work, especially with labs and whatnot. I think just about all of them do the 5 year program with 3 co-ops (not sure if that’s required? Actually, I know someone in chemical engineering who’s thinking about doing 4 years/2 co-ops because she’s planning on going to grad school).</p>
<p>What are co-ops?</p>
<p>You need to read up on Northeastern:</p>
<p>[College</a> of Engineering > Cooperative Education](<a href=“http://www.coe.neu.edu/coe/cooperativeeducation/index.html]College”>http://www.coe.neu.edu/coe/cooperativeeducation/index.html)</p>
<p>Most engineers do 5 years with two or three co-ops because its one of the hardest majors/colleges to condense down to 4 years.</p>
<p>Here, 3.3 is about average for my engineer friends. It’s a tough group. But its a field that can’t really be replaced by anything else if thats what you want to do, so its worth it to them.</p>
<p>Seriously, don’t pick a school because the engineering students here spend one hour more or less on homework a day than at some other school… Chances are, you’ll spend the same amount of time working at one school as you would at another- it’s about the effort YOU put in. And it will vary greatly by what classes you are taking each semester. Pick a school because you love it and it offers everything you want, not because you think you’ll have a .1 higher gpa than at someplace else.</p>