<p>I am transfering from Stevens Institute of Technology with a 3.4 gpa. I am studying computer engineering. Which school out of those 3 is the best for engineering? </p>
<p>I am leaning towards Northeastern right now because of the Coop program(which I am doing at stevens right now). </p>
<p>Thanks
John</p>
<p>Well I just got into Northeastern(figured I would). Just not sure if I will get into Tufts or not.</p>
<p>Here are the rankings for computer engineering according to US News:
50. Boston University (peer assessment of 2.7/5.0)
50. Northeastern University (peer assessment of 2.7/5.0)
XX. Tufts University (not ranked in this category)</p>
<p>Here are the general engineering rankings according to US News:
48. Boston University (recruiter assessment of 3.1/5.0)
67. Northeastern University (recruiter assessment of 2.9/5.0)
75. Tufts University (recruiter assessment of 2.9/5.0)</p>
<p>So basically it is pretty even I take it..</p>
<p>Northeastern and BU are pretty equal. Northeastern's #1 rated co-op program gives it the edge, though. While Tufts is good for a few liberal arts programs, don't even think about Tufts for engineering.</p>
<p>I'd go with Northeastern, primarily because of the Co-op</p>
<p>Right on RMac -- BU has a medical school that helps with its biomedical engineering program, but other than that, NEU beats BU hands down for everything else in engineering.</p>
<p>Kiddly, you certainly have a predisposition to attack the Tufts engineering program despite all the arguments that were made in some of our previous posts. It's just a common tone in your writing when discussing Tufts that comes across as rather negatively tainted.</p>
<p>I ask you, why attack something you don't know about? You hardly knew anything about the Tufts sciences (premed) reputation and strength, what gives you the credibility to judge the Tufts engineering program?</p>
<p>I'm not attacking Tufts engineering program -- I'm simply stating the reality of the situation. Tufts CE program is NOT EVEN RANKED!! And there weren't any convincing arguments regarding Tufts engineering program. And nobody has offered me any statistics demonstrating Tufts pre-med strength other than a generality and one other person just parroting your (trollish) assesment. Show me the numbers. Show me how many Tufts grads go on to med school out of all those premeds rather than just offering up a completely meaningless percentage.</p>
<p>If I'm the troll, why is it that you have 3 pseudonyms that troll for northeastern, "backing" yourself up after posting a message, "seconding" the agreement? You certainly do enough parroting. You yourself have yet to prove that Tufts DOESN'T have a good premed program.</p>
<p>well I guess I am going to settle with NEU. Where does Tufts rank in other engineering deparments? I really like Tufts to be honest</p>
<p>Tufts is not ranked highly because of the focus of resources on the undergraduates. However, the engineers here are of high quality like any other selective institution. One of the main perks of being an engineer at Tufts is the added flexibility of allowing a liberal arts curriculum to coincide with the engineering curriculum. Students are not as limited as such compared to other universities such as MIT - Tufts students graduate with a broad education as well as a sharp mind. The engineers compete well in the market and never have trouble finding jobs. Our ranking may be low, and there may be better school focuses for engineering out there, but the engineering department here is anything but sub-par.</p>
<p>Feel free to accuse me of being every poster on the board who has anything positive to say regarding Northeastern. Why stop at 3? </p>
<p>As for you, well you ARE a troll because you refuse to admit that Tufts has a poor engineering program. Its not ranked low because of Tufts undergrad focus; its ranked low because it is underfunded, lacks signficant resources, and has a poor reputation (for good reasons!) amongst the other engineering schools. Look at schools like Lehigh, Villanova, Bucknell, Lafayette, etc.. that are undergrad focused schools with excellent reputations for engineering.</p>
<p>Instead of admitting this, you try and spin things and come up with this Tufts engineers can take many more liberal arts classes, blah, blah. WHat a crock! Don't kid yourself here, engineering programs that are ABET accredited require so many engineering courses for the degree that there is very little room for any meaningful exposure to any liberal arts discipline. </p>
<p>Just take a step back and take your Tufts colored glasses off, is all I'm saying. Encouraging someone to consider Tufts for engineering is like suggesting that somone else who is history or sociology minded to consider MIT or CalTech. Its simply foolish.</p>
<p>I have just as much of a right to support the Tufts engineering program as much as you have a right to troll for Northeastern. You don't go here, you don't know what the program is like, you're not even a Tufts student! What gives you the right to judge the quality of the school based off of numbers? Is it that inconceivable to consider that what I have said is even remotely true? How can you refute the word from recent Tufts alumni that their Tufts engineering degree and reputation are driving their careers? You have no experience at Tufts whatsoever, you only know of what you saw at Northeastern- and maybe it could have been that the people at Tufts are more capable at handling a tougher courseload because they're more capable students! Who knows? Maybe Tufts students are of just a higher caliber and are better qualified than Northeastern students! I don't make comments about Northeastern because I don't see anything other than what US News gives as data, so I refrain from making my comments, regardless of initial conceptions off of what I see. I don't trust everything I see based on first glance, and neither should you. It's that sort of absurd reasoning in which you're stooping to, accusing me of trolling while you yourself have not even thought of the other side of the argument. Instead of helping posters decide, you merely belittle what you don't understand.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way, your three pseudonyms are all the same in rhetoric, style of composition, and in citing the similar sources. I'm pretty sure they were you.</p>
<p>Wow. Lets see. One should take the advice of a Tufts troll and the advice of a few recent Tufts graduates? And use this information from a tiny number of people and generalize that out? Um, yeahhhh. Is there a Tufts freshman ritual or something that permanently attaches those Tufts colored glasses? You'd be a lot more credible if you were to actually admit that Tufts has a weak engineering program and just leave it at that. Or just not say anything at all about it.</p>
<p>I like how you refute my points. Why? Because there's no logic to your argument in the first place - there's no basis!</p>
<p>My you are deluded.</p>
<p>Tufts is ranked poorly in engineering. You rationalize that this is because of its undergraduate focus. I named several schools off the top of my head who have an undergrad focus yet remain highly ranked in engineering. You lose here.</p>
<p>You claim that Tufts engineering has a special edge that allows its students to broaden their education with liberal arts courses. I claim that ABET accredited engineering schools force engineering students to take a majority of engineering courses, which naturally limits exposure to liberal arts courses. You lose here again. (And of course, if students wish to load up on additional liberal arts courses out of intellectual curiousity, there is nothing that limits them from doing that at any school).</p>
<p>Schools like Northeastern have established co-op programs that allow engineering students to gain real world experience. Northeastern has the #1 rated co-op program. Tufts has a very indistinguished program with few connections to industry. You lose in a big way here.</p>
<p>There you have it! LOL.</p>
<p>Kiddly, you are very ignorant and childish in your rebuttles. You have a very myopic sense of what college is and what makes a program good. Please don't try and impart your false knowledge on everyone on this board. Take note that I am not a Tufts student nor do I plan on applying, but I know for a fact that Tufts is not a bad school. Keep your unfounded biases to yourself, thanks.</p>
<p>Feel free to provide evidence to the contrary. I thought I pretty clearly summarized the discussion here. Personal attacks won't get you very far either and they are the last resort of the defeated.</p>
<p>Ironic that you're the one using them aren't you? All engineering students have room for 1 liberal arts class per semester, and we are a legitimate engineering school. That's much more than what other programs allow for. Feel free to browse the curriculum yourself on the Tufts website.</p>
<p>If there is anything you've accomplished, I suggest you take a step back for a second. You're mercillessly sacking a school in which you know nothing about, basing all of your assertions on word of mouth and "data" interpretations of US news, and thus adding a negative tone. I believe you're doing a better chance of discrediting yourself to the general populous of the forum than promoting Northeastern. Has that ever crossed your mind? Or is your ego in myopic debating clouding your judgment?</p>