Here NEU is listed at 55 in terms of graduation rate. https://www.oedb.org/rankings/graduation-rate/ |
Did you get the 'among national universities' part? So it sounds about right. Also looks like it's an outdated info. https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/ |
William and Mary? Wake Forest? Brandeis? |
Northeastern is obviously not a top target school for top IB or Consulting firms, but they are only small segment of the population However it's business school is ranked highly overall based on outcome/salary. https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/rankings/poetsquants-best-undergraduate-business-schools-of-2023/4/ Also Doing well on tech and engineeing areas https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-engineering Overall school outcomes by salary: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/ Northeastern: $89K Vanderbilt: $84K UChicago: $78K Rice: $87K Northwestern: $86K Brown: $88K Emory: $82K UCLA: $80K |
A lot of these statistics are a bit misleading. The colleges like NEU and Carnegie Mellon that emphasize STEM majors will show higher earnings. Obviously the CS and engineering graduates will be more highly compensated. NEU's has a great business school, and with its coop program, of course its graduates will have higher paying jobs.
This of course can drive selectivity. But look at William and Mary. It has an acceptance rate of 33%. But the great majority of majors are in non-STEM fields like psychology, government, history, English etc. I guarantee if you accounted just for W&M's computer science or business applicants, you would have a much lower admission rate, and much higher SAT scores. |
PP. I was asking about the text I bolded — you (?) said NEU’S “outcomes” rival those of multiple T15 schools. You cited undergraduate business majors (thanks) but that’s…. Really limited. I guess it’s useful for the person who wants to be an undergraduate business major. |
For the CS/CS engineering outcomes:
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech Rank (Adjusted) Institution # Employed Top Employer (Total) Top Employer (Share) 1 Carnegie Mellon University 1,356 2 Columbia University 651 3 Stanford University 661 4 MIT 405 5 California Institute of Technology 78 6 Harvey Mudd College 72 7 Georgia Institute of Technology 1,094 8 University of Southern California 1,252 9 Rice University 235 10 Harvard University 260 11 Duke University 304 12 Cornell University 612 13 Northeastern University 604 14 University of California, Berkeley 1,212 15 University of Pennsylvania 352 16 Princeton University 170 17 Brown University 236 18 Santa Clara University 180 19 Northwestern University 226 20 University of Illinois 877 |
Now that is a list that means something. |
How reliable is that list? It seems to be a hard, better metric than some click bait AI generated ranking on a pay-to-post magazine. |
You missed the post right above, 08:52? |
More than twenty years ago. And cops from Revere and ordinary Bostonians went to Northeastern to become lawyers and work in business. Since then the school has become more high tech and more well known around the country. If you think you’re being insulting or witty by sneering at its history then you’re just a mean spirited person. |
Not a lot of publics on this list. Reminds me of the "Big Law" and "Big Med" lists. And this is why the Ivies and the like will never die.
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I know nothing about the University of Illinois, but why/when/where did it become such a sought-after computer science school? It's not like it's located near Fermilab.
As a follow-up, is there any movement by UVA to become more CS/AI focused? Looking at that list of schools, that's where you want your public university to be heavily invested. I know that you still need to train doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc., but the schools on that list will just separate further from the schools that don't emphasize the future. |
Longevity. School was building computers for govt/military back in the 40s. CS department established mid-60s. HAL, the computer from Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001, according to the script was "built" in Urbana. |
+1 NP here. It seems every time NEU is mentioned, it is by an OP whose DC was not admitted. It is not so difficult to figure out that there is an obvious chip on OP's shoulder. If we are going to talk about past commuter schools - many, many schools, including Harvard, would be included. GMU is a current commuter school. NEU has not been a commuter school since the 1950's, when it was also known as a top Engineering school. NEU has always been a top Engineering school, and also one of the first and best Computer Science Schools, as well. NEU programs are nothing to sneer at, and it is extremely difficult, to be admitted to NEU. OP seems to be well aware of this, otherwise, why would OP be so persistent about posting false information about NEU, in particular. OP should know what they are talking about before they post. There have been other pieces of misinformation that OP has posted about NEU. OP's posts are obvious and incorrect. |