Northeastern versus George Washington for Engineering

<p>Just wondering, which is better academically for engineering and in terms of future career opportunities. Both cost the same for me and are fairly close to where I live.</p>

<p>Personally I’d go with NEU for engineering.</p>

<p>Just wondering why?</p>

<p>The co-op experience is a big draw of NEU. I am attending NEU for CS next year for the opportunities as well as the department. Over 50% of grads get job offers from their co-ops, and those who don’t leave with 6-18 months of industry work experience. I specifically researched NEU’s CS department and I cannot speak for GW’s at all, but if the academics are comparable in your mind, NEU seems the clear choice excluding your personal taste for campus / environment which wasn’t included in the OP.</p>

<p>Thank you for the info!</p>

<p>George Washington, while a great school, doesn’t strike me as a school as strong for engineering. Northeastern is good, especially with its co-op system in place. </p>

<p>Actually, George Washington is erecting a new engineering building. Its spending lots of money to upgrade the School of Engineering. Incidentally, so is NEU. I think that NEU broke ground on its new engineering building earlier this year.</p>

<p>I think your choice should be based upon what kind of engineering you intend to study. Neither is a traditional engineering powerhouse like Illinois, RPI, Michigan or California-Berkeley but you need to get an idea as to where GW and NEU graduates end up. Also, my guess is that regarding internship co-ops, GW kids find jobs with metro DC firms. There are very many engineering/ technology companies in Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia.</p>

<p>Didn’t even know GW had engineering.</p>

Currently going through the same process between the same two schools, also for engineering. Just curious as to where you ended up and why?

OP hasn’t posted since 2014, so I wouldn’t hold your breath for a response

I would speculate that the GWU Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering department have strong ties to technology firms in the DC metro region, of which there are many; BAE, AOL, Lockheed, L-3 Communications, SAIC etc, not to mention the U.S. government, including the military services.

GWU is just one of the many schools with engineering departments in the DC metro area (GMU, UMD, JHU, VT for some of their graduate programs, etc.) In all the years I’ve worked in defense engineering in DC area, I’ve only met one person who went to GWU.

I toured GW this summer and it does have some brand new engineering facilities, so the program may be on the come up

I would guess that in MD-DC-NoVa, GWU engineering has a more substantial relationship with technology employers than Boston University.

Both Boston and DC metro area have strong tech companies. But DC has more government technology opportunities.

NEU actually has a lot of security and government ties - I know people currently on co-op for Lockheed and a few other big name security firms. As a CS student there currently, I get what seems like monthly emails about recruitment opportunities in cyber security. I’m sure engineering benefits from this as well.

Raytheon has a large footprint in metro Boston, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they interviewed several Boston University students each year.

Don’t forget MIT Lincoln Labs, Athena Health, Boston Dynamics, Bose, etc. Most of these companies and organizations hire local students from MIT, BU, NEU, Olin, etc.