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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The coop program has always seemed genuinely cool to me.

That said, in the areas I'm familiar with, the quality of the faculty are not remotely competitive with similarly-ranked universities.  And it is extremely common knowledge that the president spent years gaming the USNWR rankings in every way possible--the entire institution was organized around that goal.  It worked!  But I don't think it represented any big increase in quality, and the people I know who worked there during that era all despised the way it governed everything.

I would guess the popularity means that there's a much bigger market for coop type programs than people used to think.  And I definitely understand why many people would prioritize that over having access to "world class faculty" or whatever.  If your kid isn't going to do academic research, then the difference between the faculty at Northeastern and at Harvard is probably immaterial. [/quote]

The school has improved vastly in every way if that's what gaming is about. Who would be the best judge of the 'quality'? the industry and employers who are actually willing to pay for the products.  It looks like Northeastern's quality is highly respected.

There's a misunderstanding about coop at Northeastern. 
There are about 39 R1 private universities in the US, and Northeastern is one of them.
In case you don't what that is about,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_in_the_United_States
It especially has high research activities in the areas of CS, engineering, STEM. 
For example, https://csrankings.org/#/index?all&us   this ranking is based on research activities.
So there are plenty of research activities and students are involved in research.

Unless you are a trust fund kid, everyone is highly interested in internships these days.
Coop is basically an internship but with much more flexibility and better support from the school.
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Here's what the gaming is about. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/
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What about it?  it basically says Northeastern played by the rules and actually improved in the areas considered important while there were schools cheated to climb up rankings.  We in fact have recent cases of cheating such as UCBerkeley, Columbia, Emory etc.  [/quote]

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