<p>GW is ranked highly but its also expensive and job placement isn't as highly rated</p>
<p>NEU also has a good program, but it takes 5 years, 1 year abroad, and is very structured so you lose a lot of your electives to language.</p>
<p>Advice?</p>
<p>I have a daughter at GW and another starting NU next year. I don’t think you can go wrong. As you say, each has it’s pros and cons. What cons turn you off the most? Have you visited each? They are different in feel. DC and Boston are VERY different cities. My DC daughter loves GW and it is the perfect match for her. NU seems to be that same fit for daughter #2. I know I am not helping you choose, but I think YOU are the one who has to decide. Good luck!</p>
<p>BTW, both are expensive and with NU’s rise in ranking the past 2-3 years both have simular freshman profiles. My GW daughter has a friend in international business and I know she is abroad for at least a semester next year…</p>
<p>My problem actually sprouts from my parents.
My parent’s problem is that while they know I will get a job when I graduate from NU I may be liminted to my major because the program is soo structured that you don’t really get to try out careers during co-op. Having the ability to try different fields is what originally interested me about NU. </p>
<p>GW is also fantastic but has not been so great in the past about getting students jobs after graduation. If you don’t mind me asking, what do you think of GW’s career placement? My parents are fine with GW’s price tag as long as I can get a job but it doesn’t seem guaranteed. I think in 2010 within 3 months of graduation 70% had taken jobs.</p>
<p>To be perfectly honest, my GW D is a Psych major and will head to grad school when she graduates. I am not familiar with their career placement #'s. You are forgetting though that the US and world economies have been in a decline for the past number of years. That and industrial downsizing from technological changes are making it more and more dificult for ANYONE to get a job, unless you are heading into the Healthcare Industry! BIG RED FLAG!!! -just because you go to NU and do 1-2 or 3 co-ops isn’t a guarantee that you will get a job when you graduate! I’d think that 70% at GW actually sounds pretty good for 3 months out given this economy, but not sure. </p>
<p>As far as trying out different careers; I think all majors are somewhat structured. Say for instance my D, who will major in Behavioral Neuro goes through her 1st co-op and realizes she HATES working in the field (that she thought from her studies what her dream career), she will either have to find a related major with some of the same requirements or she is looking at some extra years of schooling to change her major. Trial and error… not sure that is what co-op is all about. My take on CO-OP is that if you start out in your major and do your first co-op and find it is NOT what you thought that industry was about, you know then and not after you have spent 4 years in the classroom(and many many $$$$) studying before getting any significant hands on experience~ all that time and $$ and not being happy in your chosen field would be tragic but happens all the time.</p>
<p>Perhaps someone else has a different take… Good luck!</p>