<p>For Questions:
Is the Co-op program all that they claim?
Is it even worth it? (Someone said it was completely optional)
How is it not having a summer vacation?? I know that all my friends will have pretty long summer breaks.</p>
<p>Comparison:
I got into NU college of administration, PSU Smeal, and IUB Kelley and have to choose one of them pretty soon.</p>
<p>Indiana University Bloomington Kelley School of Business:
Pros:
Rated the best business school out of the three. Has a beautiful campus. Is a Big 10 school. Is about 45 minutes from Indianapolis (Colts games). Cheap. Lots of school spirit and good sports teams.
Cons:
I live in Connecticut, so Indiana is very far away. I looked up the plane tickets and it costs 400 dollars to go to Indianapolis. This would mean only going home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Summer. </p>
<p>Penn State University Park Smeal:
Pros:
Well known and respected school. Big and open campus. Big 10 School. There are tons of trips to New York which would make it very easy to get home (bus to new york and a train home). Also cheap.
Cons:
Out of the three, Penn State is rated the worst business school. Also, it seems like students stay on campus since the closest city is New York or Philedelphia.</p>
<p>Northeastern University College of Administration:
Pros:
Boston, enough said. Pretty big campus. Growing respect for the school. Very easy to get home but far enough away. Business school and co-op.
Cons:
No summer??? Pretty expensive. No football team.</p>
<p>If having a summer vacation each year is so important to you, then don’t go to Northeastern. By your senior year where ever, you will be scrambling to find a job with a resume consisting of McDonald’s and WalMart jobs while Northeastern seniors will have 2 years of real work experience. Coop is not optional at NU by the way. </p>
<p>At IU or Penn State, you might consider getting a summer internship, if you can pull yourself away from the beach that is.</p>
<p>I plan on studying abroad at whatever college I go to so no need to be hostile towards me.
And as for work, I plan on going to graduate school after this. All three schools provide very good educations, and I value that a lot.
Yes, I do value my social scene. I value the time that I get to spend with my friends too.</p>
<p>A year or so after high school, your friends wil pretty much have other interests and a new circle of friends themselves. If they are smart, they will be interning or cooping in the summer too. If you plan to get an MBA, major business schools require at least 2 years of professional work experience before being admintted, Having significant work experience will also help admission to law school if that is your intention.</p>
<p>I think it’s experimental learning that’s mandatory, and that research, co-ops, and something I cant remember are a part of it for you to choose from.</p>
<p>But hey, working experience is always good, no matter where you end up going. Northeastern just gives you a chance to do so before you graduate.</p>
<p>Co-op isn’t mandatory. There’s an “experiential learning” requirement that can be filled by senior-level courses like seminars or directed study. This really depends on your major… some majors require co-op, but a lot of them don’t.</p>
<p>Most people do co-op because co-op is awesome. Some people don’t think it’s for them but a lot of them change their minds later on and do at least one. I don’t know many people who have done straight 4 years.</p>
<p>Not having summer isn’t as bad as it sounds. You’ll have a summer after freshman year, but after that most of your hometown friends won’t be around much anyway–people move on and find other interests. If summer is important to you, there are ways to arrange your schedule so that you have a real vacation. Spending summer in boston is actually really fun, and summer classes are super laid back, so most of us are pretty happy to hang around.</p>
<p>Experiential learning is service learning (pretty much only done by education minors), directed research, study abroad, and co-op. CAS requires one, but I believe Business may require specifically co-op. Also, as said above, some majors require co-op, such as math.</p>
<p>And by your second summer, every single one of your friends back home are going to be taking summer classes as well. I don’t know a SINGLE person from back home who isn’t in summer classes on campus, and they all go to normal state schools.</p>
<p>And hate to break it to you, but chances are that you’ll very quickly decide Thanksgiving isn’t worth it if its over 400. I went home freshman year, and yet all of my far-away friends (including myself) stopped going home for thanksgiving after that because of the price. It’s just not worth it for 4 days where 1 or 2 won’t even be with your friends.</p>
<p>Seriously? If you want to have a college’s football team as a deciding factor, you shouldn’t come here. We have awesome school spirit, but I can assure you that NO ONE came here for the sports, apart from the players pulled in of course.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the info Emily2007 and Neuchimie, appreciate the help!</p>
<p>I’m in a similar situation with Northeastern, Penn State University Park and University of Miami.</p>
<p>Like everyones been saying, the Co-op is an amzing factor at NEU. But apart from that, how are the academic classes at NEU (in particular Business if you know about it)? Are they any good, or is co-op the only strong point of NEU? How are professors in general?</p>
<p>Also if I was doing the 5 year programme and did 3 co-ops, when would I get holidays then? I’m just currious, please dont abuse me.</p>
<p>Karanz same thing here man, thinking of penn state as well…i had posted this on a forum, but we’ll hopefully get more opinons…till then heres the link for that</p>
<p>last thing zanduh, if i got into Kelly i would go there no doubt…its got an unbelivable business school man, and the business school just seems to get better and better everyyear…</p>
<p>Can Emily2007 and Neuchimie please answer the questions I asked above? (Don’t mean to sound demanding, just that its a lot of help getting advice from current students)</p>
<p>Thanks for the info
I looked into it and, yes, business majors must do the two co-ops which either take place during Summer II - Fall of the two years or Spring - Summer I of the two years.</p>
<p>I think that, while this seems like a great school, I will choose either Smeal or Kelley. I plan on getting an MBA, and the debts i’ll have after both undergrad and grad school will be very large. The average starting salary is not too far from that of Smeal or Kelley, and I’d have to deal with 12 grand more per year. Who knows, maybe i’ll come back to NU for graduate studies.</p>
<p>since u applied to northeastern, im guessing u like the idea of working, co-op etc…so i suggest u goto kelly, my friends doing finance and is in his junior year and he gets some pretty sick internships even if it is over summer…</p>
<p>also remember Indiana is surrounded by a decent city, not like psu…</p>
<p>I don’t know much about business classes. I’ve met some kids here who have gotten incredible business co-ops and post-graduation jobs, and who have gotten into top MBA programs… I assume these kids have to be smart/good at what they do/ambitious since they’ve been successful as ugrad business majors, and I’d assume that people like this want to be in a good program with good professors. So based on that, and the fact that most business majors I’ve met are reasonably happy here, I imagine the courses you’ll take will be well taught and will prepare you well for the field.</p>
<p>In general, like most schools, most of the classes are well taught and enjoyable. You’ll probably have more “yeah sure, that’s a good class” than “Wow, that was awesome, this course changed my life” or “that was AWFUL”. There will always be a variety.</p>
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<p>Northeastern is “off” a few times a year-- thanksgiving, winter break (about 3-4 weeks), spring break, a break between semester and Summer I (late april-early may), a break between summer I and II (late june-july), break between summer II and fall (late august). If I want, I usually go home or travel during “intersession” breaks between semester/summer sessions. If you live close there are also a few 3 day weekends during semester, and summer classes are only 4 days/wk so you always have 3 day weekends while in summer session.</p>
<p>So, it’s not like we can’t find time for going home/vacations. You’ll have plenty of breaks to do things outside of co-op and class, all of us find ways to fit in cool things. People who love to travel can do it between semesters, or co-op abroad, or study abroad. People who want to spend summers at the beach can do it while on co-op or during the 3 day weekends of summer classes (which run mon-thurs, so you have Fridays off). People who want to go home frequently can do it. Lucky for us we get to do all those things, and “having a badass internship” (which most college kids hope to get, regardless of school) is just handed to us as part of the package.</p>