You may want to take into cosideration employment opportunities as well. NYU Poly is ranked Number five in the country for salary potential. (Google payscale engineering schools). Tufts is not on that list.
@NYNJCA Tufts is not on that list because it is not an Engineering school, it is a University with a School of Engineering. It is #9 on the full list, above several top-ten ranked schools.
Since you brought it up, here’s the Payscale comparison of the two schools. Note that the mid-career salary is higher at Tufts.
I take all rankings with a grain of salt and therefore use them merely as a guide. Even US News, which many people rely upon is inherently flawed. NYU Poly is now officially a School within NYU. NYU, for whatever it is worth, is constantly rated higher that Tufts overall in the Times and Shanghai ratings. However, I take all of this, as I said, with a grain of salt.
Anyone considering these two schools should visit. They are located in totally different environments. I have read that there are people that didnt like Poly. However, I personally know people who hated Tufts and Harvard. Both did well academically and graduated.Therefore, different people can have different experiences.
More importantly, engineering majors typically do better than most in finding employment after graduation. I agree that both are excellent academic institutions. However, the environments are drastically different.