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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an insider, I find these NEU threads interesting. I have worked in the NEU administration for 25+ years. Back when I stated my job at NEU, the university was nearly broke and it was generally ranked as a commuter school that resides just above the community colleges. In fact, we often lost students to Middlesex Community College and such.

The quick turnaround from commuter school to an elite which according some on this forum is a Harvard rival is amazing.(I was surprised to learn that last bit.) But I believe that NEU has marketed itself well, given the number of applicants this past season.

Interesting, the university is fundamentally not that different from the inside since its earlier commuter days. I don't mean buildings and such. But the faculty and teaching quality are about the same. NEU doesn't try to hire "stellar" faculty, just some folks who can get in front of a class. That means they don't mind hiring lots of "temporary" teachers or hiring faculty who can be hired cheaply.

Importantly, the administration also realizes the need for warm bodies and is aggressive in filling in the classroom and the dorms with people. Sometimes they do this too aggressively and they have pack in lots of kids into small places. But, they know it does not matter as those students are already a captive tution-paying audience who won't leave.

They know jobs are important and co-op programs have grown.They know people want CS, so they offer a zillion flavors of it (many won't make sense from a purely science point of view and will never be offered at Harvard or some other more education-oriented place).

In other words, NEU is a common sense driven business. They know how to market themselves. But they also know how to give their customers what they want, which is good thing.[/quote]

Everyone should know career leading jobs are in fact one of the the most important things especially when student loan problem is becoming national cirisis.

Also schools like harvard and such don't have undergraduate business shools because they think it's not in a domain of 'pure/traditioanl college education'  while shcools like Cornell, MIT, UPenn, and many others adopted it. Rice recently started one, Vanderbilt started Business minor. Brown started Econ with Business track.
Education evolves too.  The tech field really evolves fast, and the field of CS is getting wider and wider.  I think Northeatern is adopting to it very nicely and leading the trend.

My kid was specifically looking for colleges with some sort of hybrid programs and options with CS and design/art.
DC found a few schools such as Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, UF, etc. Northeastern was one of them, and end up there.

The location is a big plus too, and they took advangate of it well.[/quote]

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