<p>I love the school as I am attending in the fall. I just want to know what people think of it because where I'm from not many people have heard of the school</p>
<p>It depends on how you define prestige. Northeastern is a peer school of Boston University and Boston College. All three were once local schools. When BU and BC went “national” they did not have to deal with the question “Where’s that?”. The answer is in their names. All three have been widely respected in New England and the mid-Atlantic states for decades.</p>
<p>Most people have regional blinders. Few in New England have ever heard of Rice University. Most New Englanders would think of USC as a good albeit scandal ridden football school. Many think that the University of Pennsylvania is a state school. Etc. </p>
<p>For where it is known, Northeastern is very well respected. While this is purely anecdotal - at my [Greater Boston High School], I often hear Juniors and Seniors use “Northeastern” and “dream school” in the same sentence.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Here in Charlotte, NC, we have a Northeastern graduate campus, and yet not a single high school student from my school besides myself even applied there. People usually say “I’ve heard of it” and then ask if it’s on the West Coast. So, in the South, not prestigious in any sense.</p>
<p>Kind of funny with a name like Northeastern people would ask if it’s on the West Coast-if I heard the name and knew nothing about it my first guess with a name with east in it wouldn’t be the West Coast! :)</p>
<p>Is the question name recognition? I don’t think of prestige when I think of Northeastern-but there are very few schools I assign that label to.</p>
<p>let the numbers speak for themselves. look at the number of applicants, number of acceptances and the yield.
it’s pretty clear. </p>
<p>Northeastern’s level of “prestige” is definitely on the rise. Because of our co-op program’s ability to get students jobs after they graduate, our school has gone up in ranks very fast. We’re already a top 50 school in the nation and I think we’ll continue to go up in ranking. </p>
<p>Coming from a hard magnet school in cali, people have indeed heard of the name “Northeastern,” whether they confuse it with Northwestern or not, but it’s most definitely a growing name. A good maybe 50+ students out of my 600 high school graduating class have applied. People from the east coast, have DEFINITELY heard of the name however. </p>