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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the whole story of how Northeastern played the ranking game successfully: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/[/quote]

Wow! Every parent and student considering NU should read this.[/quote]

It's a fascinating article...BUT, here's the thing...it now attracts top-notch students and professors.  The facilities are excellent, it's in the heart of Boston, and its graduates do very, very well.  The co-op program--if that is something that interests your student--is second to none.  So, it is true that they gamed the rankings.  But the rankings are stupid in the first place (as is evident by the fact that they can be gamed).  [/quote]

Here is the last part of the Article on the Value of its degree:

"Concerned about the skyrocketing costs of a college education, the White House is launching a federal rating system that, unlike U.S. News’s, will focus less on student inputs (e.g., SAT scores) and more on the resultant value of a degree—weighing a school’s tuition costs, graduation rates, and postgraduate salaries. The government hopes to implement the system this fall. Don’t expect to find NU at the top: In Money magazine’s 2014 “Best Colleges for Your Money,” which uses a similar methodology, Northeastern landed at the bottom of the third quartile, at number 433."[/quote]

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