<p>According to NEU's forum, attending it costs around $54000 per year. Assuming we attend college for 4 years, merely doing simple mathematics it will cost around $220000. However, I looked at the forum and after fall or winter sophomore semester we have to do co-op, meaning we actually attend 2 and a half years of college instead of 4. So, my question is is it right to calculate total cost for graduating northeastern as $220000 or subtract $ of co-op period??</p>
<p>Please answer me!!.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you get the 2 and a half years from. You attend Northeastern for 8 semesters, just like any other school. After sophomore year, the semesters are interspersed with two or three 6 month coop periods depending on whether you choose the 4 year or five year option.</p>
<p>The smallest amount of time you can spend in school, based on personal experiences, is this:
First Year Fall - School
First Year Spring - School
Summer I and II - Vacation
2nd Year Fall - School
2nd Year Spring and Summer I - Co-op
2nd Year Summer II - School
3rd Year Fall - School
3rd Year Spring and Summer I - Co-op
3rd Year Summer II - School
4th Year Fall - School</p>
<p>With this, you are in class for 5 full semesters and 2 half semesters, so 6 semesters. That’s (without any aid/scholarships/parentals/etc) about 54,000 divided by 2 (per semester amount) times 6, so 162,000. Then you have 1.5 semesters of co-op where you aren’t paying tuition, but you are paying living expenses (which is a HUGE chunk of that estimated 54,000. I think its estimated by the school to be around 15,000 for two semesters or something. So really back of the envelope math, that’d be like 22,500 plus the 162,000- so around 184,000. Again- totally guessing on the numbers here.</p>
<p>That’s literally bare minimum, and I’ve only known one person who did it. I could have, and decided to add on an extra semester for electives. Most people stay longer (so more living expenses) and are in classes longer (so more tuition). </p>
<p>If you don’t have aid, scholarships or insanely significant help from parents, you really shouldn’t come here- or any private college for that matter. People have done it before- taken out 200,000 in loans- and it was a terrible decision.</p>
<p>OK. I got what you mean by that.
Can I ask a question though?
My parents are affordable sending me to NEU. (Probably their income exceeds $300k per year, so cost doesn’t issue)
However, does going to NEU spending around $200000 worth? I can go to the other schools which are much cheaper than NEU.
I heard that NEU’s educational quality is great, but it hasn’t been certified by me yet.</p>
<p>Whether or not it’s “worth it” is really up to you. In general, I never say that northeastern is worth significant debt. I always advise going to the school that will allow you to graduate with minimum debt (unless it’s negligible. 35k of debt vs 40k isn’t much different in the long run, but something like 20k vs 60k? go for the 20k).</p>
<p>If you really can comfortably afford any school, and your parents are willing to pay whatever they need to, then I think it comes down to where you think you’ll have the best opportunities and where you’ll be happiest.</p>
<p>A good student at northeastern will do well there, and they will do just as well at a cheaper school. Making the most of opportunities tends to be more important than the school you go to. If you love northeastern, plan on getting taking advantage of the opportunities as nu, and you can comfortably afford it, then yeah, it’s probably “worth it”. If the money is just too much and you’d be happy somewhere cheaper, then no, nu probably isn’t worth it.</p>
<p>I’m graduating with 27k in federal loans, and wouldn’t have traded the experience for any other school. But I know someone who went to UF instead of Duke because UF was free and Duke didn’t offer aid. It’s a very personal decision that has to involve your parents a lot.</p>
<p>I wholeheartedly agree with you guys that successful people success no matter what college they go. However, if that is true, there is no point going to good universities- people can just head up to inferior colleges with less tuition paid. So I think it is virtually paying more money and getting great experience vs paying less money getting not much great experience. I attended CC for and quit immediately because its professors’ qualities are so terrible…
The fact I have to figure out is whether NEU’s teaching qualities much exceed those of “inferior” other schools, and I am not sure of it.</p>
<p>Educational quality varies by course and program. Most top schools have great and not so great instructors. If you can afford Northeastern and plan to go into one of its better ranked programs, then it is worth it, but NOT if you are going to be saddled with unaffordable levels of debt.</p>
<p>Co-op will pay your living expenses during co-op, but not much more unless you are in business and engineering and land a plum assignment with a consulting firm or investment bank.</p>
<p>Finally, cost and quality are not always correlated. There are lots of great public colleges that provide excellent education. So I guess it depends on what you call “inferior.”</p>
<p>My major is business but subdividing into categories, entrepreneurship.
As I said earlier, my parents are rich enough to pay tuition. So I guess your advice to me is to attend NEU.
Do you know what will happen as a student seeking for a co-op majoring entrepreneurship, though? I am not majoring accounting or etc… Also, I am not interested in working in bank firms… I want to do my own business.
This saying will classify my future path a queer case. That being presumed, What do you think about it? attending NEU majoring entrepreneurship?</p>
<p>We’ve got a pretty good base with entrepreneurship, I think. It’s one of the new kicks that the school is obsessed with. There are a bunch of really good clubs on campus that bring people in, and there are speakers all the time. But I have zero interest in it, so that’s all I know.</p>
<p>As far as co-ops go, that will obviously depend on you. You’re right, it’s not accounting- so there isn’t a direct “you should aim for Big 4” path to take. The key with entrepreneurship, in my opinion, would be building networks and learning how to operate small businesses. There are a LOT of co-ops at small start-ups in Boston, in every field/job position you could imagine. I know people who have worked in them and loved how much they got to learn how to really run a small business. At the same time, it might be more useful for you to work at something like Zynga if you think you might want to create an online gaming company (just picking a random example), because you could meet some really talented people in the industry who could be helpful later. Co-op is always personally-driven, but it’s even more so the case for something like entrepreneurship.</p>
<p>And the point above about “inferior” is very true- University of Florida is a higher ranked school than us, but it’s dirt cheap for in-state students and they offer a lot of resident scholarships (I would have gone for free). Obviously UC Berkeley is a state school that’s cheaper than NEU (for in-state students), but it’s crazy good. Costs definitely aren’t the only judge for quality.</p>
<p>For the most part, I’ve been okay with the professors here. Some of the ones in the math and econ departments aren’t that great, and everyone agrees about it. But I’ve also taken a few classes that will stick with me forever (International Food Economics is awesome even though it sounds super lame). Most were outside of my major, in fact. But hands down, the co-op program is what makes it “worth it” to me. That, and being in the city of Boston for four years. I could have gotten similar classroom education elsewhere with similar some-good-some-bad professors at any (and every) school. So yeah, I guess I decided to pay more for the experience, but that doesn’t make it any less of a valid reason.</p>
<p>Hmm… I see.
Can I ask the other question, though?
As you see I am not a native born while reading, I have great potential getting over +2250 SAT, since I didn’t either put much effort studying SAT or academic courses (they were really dull and insipid, although I attended well-renowned high school). Frankly speaking, I spent less than an hour studying SAT and academic courses combined.
Ok, lets put my flowery language about myself away. Do you think is it wise transferring to NYU STERN or better schools as a sophomore or keep staying in NEU?
I assume I can do co-op while attending Stern or other colleges, so what NEU officially pinpoints its asset, co-op, is not much pleasing.</p>
<p>One of the reason I chose it was it’s entrepreneur course is strong. But your writing really discouraging me to stay in NEU.</p>
<p>But that’s the whole issue- you CAN’T do co-ops at most schools. Of course you can do summer internships, and if your class schedule allows it you can do part-time stuff during the year. Some schools are now allowing more co-op situations because it’s such a popular thing now. And after all, you could just sort of drop out for a semester, work full time for 6 months, and then start taking classes again. But having a structure like Northeastern’s or the other “co-op schools” is very rare. Getting internships at other schools, or trying to figure out how to do an actual full-time co-op can be much much harder. We just create one resume and click some buttons until the advisor sends everything out.</p>
<p>This is especially true at schools that have strict resident (how many semesters you need to physically be on campus) requirements, or very detailed core requirements. It’s not that easy to just disappear for 6 months at a school that has your whole schedule laid out for you. And finding someone to hire you full-time for 4 or 6 months? Not exactly easy, UNLESS they have an actual co-op program. Employers don’t want to train you and pay a bunch of money for you, just to have you leave soon.</p>
<p>I personally think you’re underestimating how rare co-ops are at non-co-op schools. But if you want to go to NYU Stern, then obviously go for it. It’s a great school. You’ll just be much more likely to be doing summer gigs than actual co-ops.</p>
<p>When I hear NYU and internships mentioned together, I think of an old Seinfeld episode in which Kramer hired an NYU intern.</p>
<p>I think that episode was on tv two weeks ago.</p>