Northeastern, Boston University or BC for comp sci
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Anonymous
| Why the focus on Boston? None of these is all that great. |
Anonymous
What do you mean why? Location is one of the important factors for many people if you didn't know. Also, Northeastern is close to great for CS and engineering. It was the first university that stood up separate whole college of computer science in the 80s. Ranked #12 on https://csrankings.org/ Gets huge respect from the industry https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-tech |
Anonymous
x100000 I can't sing their praises enough, including those whom we have hired. NEU has always had outstanding and well respected engineering programs, and consequently computer science programs, much to ignorant local naysayers' dismay. I know many student applicant candidates who only preferred MIT to NEU, and that says much - but they are familiar, and did their proper homework about which schools to attend, including visiting in person, at the very least. I think the issue is that people think they can be accepted, but obviously not everyone is accepted, and that burns some people when they are rejected. Hence, it is a favorite DCUM Smear Award candidate, along with a couple of other schools. If you have to get your college information from DCUM, I don't know what to tell you. You really do have to visit the campus yourself, OP - not listen to people who are burned that their college is not as good. |
Anonymous
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BC for LAC, BU for Communications, NEU for anything engineering or computer science related.
There, I did you research for you, OP. If you even glanced at the slightest research, you would have your answer, instead of trolling DCUM. Now, get a life. |
Anonymous
Boston's best days are long ago. It's now a bad combination of high COL, but in a dying region. And it missed its shot on tech decades ago. Maybe you're good with your kid being the IT guy somewhere, but serious CS is mostly in the bay area, Seattle, and Austin, with significant work going on in CO, NYC, NOVA, Philly, and Portland. What does Boston got? And NU is about to return to the mean, after decades of playing rankings games. And with almost no endowment, it'll be hard for them to stop the slide. |
Anonymous
NOBODY GOES THERE ANYMORE. IT'S TOO CROWDED. |
Anonymous
If you don't like Boston. That's fine. It's mainly personal preference. Also, you can't game the outcomes and respect from the industry. |
Anonymous
+1 The crazy declarations are too much. The worst and most egregious leaders in history spoke with conviction - didn't make them accurate. |
Anonymous
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Maybe Boston will fade away and become a rotting urban zombie battle zone, but for right now:
The rest of the world, like China, India, Korea, Japan, UK, Germany value a US education. Especially in STEM areas. And Boston is their Mecca, with UC's their Al Aqsa. So schools like BU and Northeastern will be around for a long, long time. |
Anonymous
It seems the PPs/OP complaining and have inaccurate information about NU, have kids at other current commuter schools, perhaps. Best to not let your DC know how you really feel. NU has been popular with students across the globe since at least the 70's-80's, but OP Troll would never admit that, nor have occasion or experience to know. NU has traditionally been known for their engineering (since the 50's, if not before), and since (at least) the 80's, computer science. It has strong respect in the nerd arena, across the board. IYKYK. BU has traditionally been known for their communications major, and BC was/is more of an LAC, traditionally. BC also likes their athletes (swim and soccer, especially - so that is promising with those who have DC athletes). Alternatively, NU has eliminated their entire football team, not so long ago. Just adding some truths, so that parents will be better informed on this board, instead of mislead by those with a chip on their shoulder. For those who are in academia, as well as those in engineering, the (3) schools are rarely (if ever) compared, since the only thing they have in common is a location in Boston. That is how one can tell a troll post (ahem) from a non troll post, as there will be other troll posts, predictably. Good luck to the parents who are waiting to hear good news on behalf of their applicant DC. May you find reliable sources to guide their way. |
Anonymous
| I would go visit all 3 and arrange to meet a rep from their CS departments or see if someone on of their student panels etc is a CS major that you could talk to afterwards. |
Anonymous
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Northeastern's campus is a lot nicer than BU's if that sort of thing moves your needle.
Be careful of the salty folks who dislike all three schools. Their admission rates are so low they're ripe for slings and arrows from rejected parents. |
Anonymous
+1. Exactly. |
Anonymous
Boston campus of Northeastern doesn’t really matter because it’s unlikely that’s where kid will spend most of his time. |
Anonymous
With that philosophy, no college campus matters. A candidate that qualifies for NU admission will spend minimum 3 years, and maximum 4 years on the Boston campus. Please stop with the misinformation. |