<p>Background: I am a Freshman accepted applicant; I am currently choosing between NEU and a public research university. If I were to attend Northeastern, I'd be a Behavioral Neuroscience major (on a Pre-Med track.) I got into the Honors Program and received a Dean's Scholarship. </p>
<p>Issue: I know that co-op gives very helpful opportunities for employment and graduate school, and I also know that a majority of students take advantage of it. Although I wish to get involved in some research and whatnot, I would not want to complete an extra year before medical school. </p>
<p>From what I have heard, Northeastern's "claim to fame" is its co-op program. If I choose to not do a co-op, would an education at NEU still be worth it? What are some valuable opportunities for <em>four-year</em> students?</p>
<p>I believe four year students still partake in co-ops, just two instead of three.</p>
<p>Yes - you’ll still have time to do co-ops!</p>
<p>Would I have to take summer courses in order to fit co-ops in?</p>
<p>Not exactly sure, but I think most students take summer courses at some point anyway…
Check out page 4 of this - maybe it will clear up some ideas about scheduling:
<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/registrar/ref-udc-poa-ugd.pdf[/url]”>http://www.northeastern.edu/registrar/ref-udc-poa-ugd.pdf</a>
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<p>All students are required to do at least one approved experiential learning activity in order to graduate, some majors require more. For several majors, this does not necessarily have to be a co-op, but can be research, service learning, or a global experience. I don’t think co-op is specifically required for your major and so you could probably do research instead to meet the experiential learning requirement. Behavioral neuroscience is interdisciplinary so you may have a lot of flexibility in choosing your experiential learning activity, but you may want to look at the major requirements in the course catalog, and also talk to an academic advisor about what options are available and how many experiential learning requirements there are.</p>
<p>^^I am not so sure. At the accepted students day back in Feb, they gave me(as a Health Science major) two sample curriculums. One is a 5 year/2 co-op option, and the other is labeled as a 4 year/no co-op option.</p>
<p>Yeah, four years with co-ops is doable for many majors, but not all. So you’d have to talk to your advisors to see if it can be done.</p>