Son admitted to NEU for CE+CS. He also got admitted to Wisconsin Madison for CS (need to declare major later).
The cost are about the same for us. Do you have any suggestion which one is better? Thanks.
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Is the co-op focused curriculum at Northeastern a plus or minus for him?
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He plan to go to grad school later. I am not sure if co-op will benefit him more from that perspective.
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northeastern absolutely. im from madison, WI and go to NU currently. many of my friends go to UW Madison and i can definitely say i’m getting way more opportunities and experiences here.
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Very useful reference point. Many thanks!
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At the top public universities, all of the opportunities are there and they tend to have more topside potential than all but the elite private U’s. This is why they tend to pass a lot of schools on the graduate rankings. However, you do have to do some legwork to find them.
Northeastern for sure. It offers much more in terms of academics and networking and employment, and has the better name. Boston location is also a very big plus because of its own location and easy access to other places for interviewing, coops, etc.
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Don’t see how Northeastern is a better name, U Wisc is a perennial powerhouse in CS.
I can see how NUE’s location is very beneficial though.
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I know the student has expressed a desire to attend grad school, so this might not apply directly to his post-undergrad plans, but things change and it bears on the general discussion.
Pillaged from a different thread about schools not involved in this discussion:
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However, this list does not appear to be based on only CS or related majors at the various schools, or technical roles at the employers.
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This data has other flaws, but it does appear to be based on technical roles only:
Specifically, we identified and analyzed the undergraduate backgrounds of nearly 202,000 entry-level engineering and information technology employees
The kicker is that it’s only over 11 companies, though the quality of them renders the list at least not completely useless, just an incomplete snapshot.
employees across eleven of the most reputable American tech companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Adobe, Airbnb, and Lyft.
To the question, I think both have established themselves for postgrad outcomes in CS at this stage and are generally of the same tier. Since grad school is in the cards, you can look at the equal research output here: http://csrankings.org/
I’ve said the same elsewhere for this case, but it’s all about fit here to me since there’s equal cost. That’s way more different than CS outcomes or research availability between the two.
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My husband is a Northeastern CS graduate (many years ago) and has continually benefited from connections he made as a coop student. The coop at Northeastern is amazing and most of the big tech companies have a large presence in Greater Boston area.