<p>So I've gotten into University of Miami (UM), Penn State University Park and Northeastern for the Business programs.</p>
<p>I'm really not sure which university I should choose. These are my views so far on these schools:</p>
<p>UM - It's a good school located in a great city with an amazing weather. It's somewhat a party school. The academics are pretty strong, I think. But I feel that it doesn't necessarily have any strong points such as Northeastern's co-op.</p>
<p>Northeastern - It seems like a good school in a cool college town with real cold weather. It's got a great social scene. The really strong point of NEU is that it has the co-op program (which has really captured my dads interest in the school as well). However, apart from the co-op program, I'm not sure how the academics are at the school.</p>
<p>Penn State - I don't know much about this school, apart from that its in the middle of no where and is a huge party school! If you could give me some pointers about its Business program/school that would help a great deal!</p>
<p>Overall, can you guys please give your advice/opinion and knowledge of the schools. Any help will be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>I just know that Penn State’s strong part is engineering and science part. It seems their business program is not as good as UM. That’s the what I know,hope it helps.</p>
<p>I’m looking for more of a city , as I am used to that lifestyle.</p>
<p>At the moment I’m in the situation in between choosing between Northeastern and Miami, not really PSU because its in the middle of nowhere and has that major party tag attached to it. I like Miami for the weather, girls, amazing nightlife and obviously being a top 50 school. Northeastern for having the awesome co-op, being based in a cool college town and having a good job placement.</p>
<p>Also would it be the same if I finished my 4 year undergrad at Miami and then did work experience for a year? I plan to join my dad’s business after undergrad, but my dad insists that I have some work experience beforehand.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t rule Penn State out because of its location. We did visit Penn last summer and I felt it was located in a a very cool college town. I live in the Boston area and believe me NU students like to party as much as kid at any other school. Have you visited NU? It is truley a city school and there isn’t much “green space”. OTOH, Boston is a great place to be.</p>
<p>In the end you may have to go with your gut.</p>
<p>Go to Penn State if you want to get into IBanking. They have a club type thing that has a multimillion dollar portfolio. 10 kids who help run that club this year are working at bulge brackets after they graduate. So if you want to get into IBanking, go to PSU and get into the club and try to get a leadership position.</p>
<p>Mamon and jrt336, thanks a lot for your input, much appreciated.</p>
<p>But I think you slightly misunderstood my point. I will be join my father’s business after my undergraduate degree, but he insists I have experience beforing joining him. So if I go to Northeastern I will join him straightaway after graduating because I will have had experience through the co-ops. But if I go to Miami I will probably have to work for a year after graduating to gain some work experience. My question is that is there any difference between either of those methods (one of them being working and studying (NU) and the other being finish studies and then work(UM))?</p>
<p>You can still gain work experience doing internships over the summer at UM or Penn State. The co-op system is just an organized system of internship placement for business students where they take a semester off from studies to do full time internships instead.</p>
<p>Personally if you know you are going to go work in the family business right after graduation then I would opt for the shortest path to graduation that still includes being able to do an internship over a summer or two to gain some applied experience in what you’d be doing for your father. That could be all three schools really so to further narrow down your decision I’d go for rigor of academics, location, and final cost after aid.</p>
<p>Northeastern’s your best bet here. But careful about calling Miami UM and careful about calling Northeastern NU (Michigan and Northwestern respectively).</p>
<p>My company hires a lot of kids from NU for coop. The quality of the work experience derived from the coop really is all over the map. Some depts will use the student to do grunt work, others will try to make it a learning experience. I am sure other companies are the same, My suggestion to you, if you decide to go to NU is make sure you understand exactly what your coop experience will entail when the time comes. Not sure how coops gets assigned, if you get choices, etc. but carefully evaluate your offerings. </p>