Hi, I’m having a ton of difficulty in choosing between these schools for undergrad cs. I personally enjoy NEU’s campus, environment, and co-op program much better than Stony, but the full ride and honors at Stony is so tempting.
That said, I value academics more than cost, but it would be reallyyy nice to go to stony for free if they weren’t too far apart.
Thanks for help! This has been stressing me out far too much.
Where is the extra cost coming from? Any loans or financial hardship for your family? Any siblings?
@PengsPhils My parents said we won’t have debt for NEU for me, but my brother will be attending college in 2 years. Generally, my parents aren’t too concerned about cost.
SB academically is a more traditional school.
Lifestyle wise neither is the stereotypical college experience, but as someone who live on Long Island,
attended Boston U, I would greatly prefer to be in Boston for lifestyle and career issues.
I got great coop/internships in Boston, and had lots of fun during free time.
No doubt if one can easily afford NEU, go there, if not, SB is great for CS.
I thought SB has stronger CS program than NEU has; especially upper classes. Also CS related programs, i.e. math engineering etc. are you heading to a school for study?
How much are you paying to NEU for “not experienced yet” campus environment? I am guessing your good feeling is just your expectation which might be changed quickly.
That’s true I shouldn’t rely on it too much.
I’m aware that SB is good and has been around for a longer time, but I’ve been seeing a lot of really good things about NEU being up and coming with their co-op programs. I know that rankings don’t mean that much in the CS field but depending on different sites, NEU has been listed higher than stony (like csrankings.org). Other than that, I haven’t seen anything that directly compares the two, especially for undergrad. But I’m very curious, what makes you think SB is better?
Stony Brook has optional co-ops for those with approximately junior standing or higher by credits.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/career-center/employers/programs?accordion=panel-d11e174
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Northeastern CS is a very strong program in teaching, research, and professionally. One of the 25 most represented schools in top SV tech companies (though not adjusted for number of grads), a technically higher research output than SB (though the gap isn’t large), and a uniquely designed teaching curriculum.
This is only representative of research output to top conferences (no career or teaching aspects) but gives an idea:
http://csrankings.org/#/fromyear/2007/toyear/2018/index?all
As long as you can confirm that going to Northeastern wouldn’t affect your brother’s choices in his college process, it sounds like you’re in a fortunate enough position to choose Northeastern here.
I’d like to look at “how well a school educates students”, somehow, rather “how the productivity of the professor in a school” in this topic / like your case.
It is PhD measurement, but when you look up NRC ranking for CS or applied math which related to CS applications SB is one of the top. When you look up the bachelors univ. or doctorate univ. the professors of top 25 CS programs get their degree from, you find SB but not NEC. When you see the list of offered award and honorable mention in NSF GRFP, you find the similar.
I guess those give me the good impression on SB program. And this education would be free for you as long as you maintain the minimum GPA, right.
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Research is merely one area. The teaching at Northeastern CS is also top notch:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developers.html