Tufts or Northwestern

Colleges and Universities A-Z Tufts University
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<p>which is better for electrical engineering?</p>

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<p>They are both great schools, for engineering and otherwise.
NU is better known in engineering, but it is my understanding that Tufts engineers do well on job placement.
Undergrad engineering programs are very regimented in terms of curriculum, so frankly I would pick whichever school you think you’d be happier at.</p>

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<p>Northwestern operates on the quarter system and requires 48 classes, 5 of which are unrestricted and 7 of which must be humanities. Tufts operates on the semester schedule, requires 38 classes, 2 of which are unrestricted and 6 of which must be humanities. See page 8 of [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/images/docs/undergrad_study_man.pdf]this[/url”&gt;http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/images/docs/undergrad_study_man.pdf]this[/url</a>] from Northwestern and [url=&lt;a href=“Homepage | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering”&gt;Homepage | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering]this[/url</a>] from Tufts. It’s basically a wash in terms of courses you have to take.</p>

<p>I’m definitely the wrong person to ask about prestige or quality of program. My bigger questions would be “fit” and “finances”. What is it for you?</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot I’ll definitely look into that</p>

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<p>I want his question answered also. Any more opinions?</p>

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<p>I’m in the same boat too. My major would not be engineering, it would be chemistry…</p>

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<p>I guess for enigneering Northwestern totally beats Tufts.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure how someone can even say that one has a better educational curriculum than the other. What metric would you measure this by?</p>

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<p>At least northwestern tops tufts in engineering rankings. that is the best, although imperfect, measure available.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure if that’s true, though I’ll take your word for it. You’re not going to get a poor education if you go to either Tufts or Northwestern, and I highly doubt that going to one over the other is going to cause an employer or a graduate school to reject you. Both are well-respected, and there are just too many other factors.</p>

<p>So your question is really meaningless to me anyway. Fit and finances are what should matter to you at this point.</p>

<p>Kitty8: I would offer you the same advice I offered the others who posted here.</p>