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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]. Why do you say that?? 
It's on par with many of the elite schools in major metrics. 
It's actually under-ranked. [/quote]

No, it’s not.
Here’s the Times Higher Education rankings (from two months ago) of the world’s 200 universities with the best reputations (as assessed by academics and administrators).

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2022/reputation-ranking#!/page/0/length/-1/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

56 US universities are on that list.  Most of the highest ranked ‘national universities’ on USNWR’s list make this Times list, as do a number of stronger state flagships.   Northeastern isn’t on that list.  It’s a fine school, but it’s not seen as on a par with the best universities in the country.

Yiu can try to dismiss the finding - there are always individual zealots who say they know better than all the experts - but the fact is, when you get past Northeastern’s low acceptance rate (yes, a lot of kids want to go to school in Boston and like the pre-professional co-op programs) and the anomalously high ranking on the USNWR list (other credible ranking systems put Northeastern considerably further down on the list of top 100 or so schools), what the data and assessments show is that Northeastern is a fine school like so many others but not one of the very top schools in the country or even in the Boston area.  Congratulations to the kids who get in, and with reasonable effort they’ll likely get a good education.  But we don’t have to listen to boosters from comparably ranked GWU or Michigan State - or higher ranked Rochester or Case Western - try to browbeat DCUM into agreeing those schools are actually now among the top/elite schools in the country, and the unrelenting effort by Northeastern’s boosters to do so only ends up,paradoxically, drawing more attention to the abundant evidence that the university isn’t.

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Why are you so passionate about the subject?  You are embarrassing yourself. [/quote]

DP but disagree. [b]PP speaks for a lot of us.[/b] There is a lot of insecurity and campaigning about the school on this board. I have no feelings about the school at all and even I get tired of it. [/quote]

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The incessant NE hype is exhausting.  And I never post about that school - but the above sums it up perfectly.  [/quote]

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