I don’t know which school I should attend. I’m instate for UW but the major I want to pursue is engineering and it’s very competitive at UW to get direct admission (or even normal admission) to their department. Would I get a worse education if I went to Northeastern or Minnesota for engineering? (Already got accepted to both, most likely will get accepted to UW since both my GPA and ACT are at or more than the 75th percentile). Most likely I want to do aero/mechanical engineering with a double major/minor in computer science. Minnesota a good choice because it has cheap out of state tuition and I got into their engineering program.
I ended up deciding between Northeastern and Minnesota (and chose Northeastern). I think someone else on this forum also asked recently about deciding between UW and Northeastern for engineering, so I’d take a look at that (unless that was also you?). I wasn’t in engineering at the time, so I can’t really speak to that part of it. Northeastern does have a strong engineering program, and co-ops for engineering are great. I do know that Northeastern has a strong computer science program (though I’m totally biased since I was a tutor/TA in the department for 3 years). I did a CS minor, and it’s very flexible so you could suit it to whatever your interests are. I took robotics and artificial intelligence for electives in my minor, which was pretty cool.
What would be your costs for Northeastern? If money is a concern and Northeastern is waaay more expensive, it’s not worth it. That goes for any school - it’s not worth it if you can’t afford it. For me, the costs were low at both schools (still cheaper at MN), but I was able to choose based on other factors. One reason I chose Northeastern was because I wanted to try somewhere besides the midwest, and when I visited I really liked Boston. (There were also a ton of people from my school going to MN and I kind of wanted to get away from that.) Co-op was not the biggest draw for me when I started, but it turned into one after I started. I also liked the flexibility and classes for my major (behavioral neuroscience), which ended up allowing me to keep my major when my interests changed in college.