Rice vs. Northeastern Scholars with full tuition scholarship for Computer Science?

College Search & Selection
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My son wants to study computer science and was admitted to Northeastern’s Scholars program, which comes with a full tuition scholarship, and admitted to Rice with no financial award. He does like that Northeastern has its own College of Computer and Information Science vs. Rice having it within the College of Engineering.

Rice is a great school with an International reputation vs. Northeastern which is not as highly regarded, but is improving its reputation significantly every year.

Looking for some opinions as to whether it is worth paying $40k+/year to go to Rice.

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I would definitely choose Northeastern. Yes, Rice has more prestige, but Northeastern is a really good school and I don’t think you’d be sacrificing much in terms of academics. A full tuition scholarship is really hard to pass up, especially when the other option is no aid at all.