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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Graduation rate:

Northeastern has a 4 year program with 2 coops as well as 5 year 3 coop options. 
(5 year used to be the norm, but 4 year is more common now)
It's not any harder than any other school to graduate in 4 years.

USN&WR and many others use the graduation rate for it's ranking calculation.It's based on 6 years.  A lot of students change majors, study abroad, etc. so 6 year calculation is the norm.  https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings

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Northeastern 6 year grad rate: 90%
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/northeastern-university-2199/overall-rankings

UMD 6 year grad rate: 87%
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-maryland-2103/overall-rankings

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How is this relevant?  My point was very few at NE graduate in 4 years, 20 percent or less according to NE’s own data.[/quote]

That's because NE students do COOPS, and typically 2+ coops means you will take more than 4 years to graduate (or it means taking courses all of your summers in college as well).  Really not that difficult to understand why.  Look at any schools engineering school and you will find many have only 40-50% 4 year grad rates---that's largely because the other students did a coop which means you need to add a semester of courses to make up for when you were on coop.[/quote]

Right, which was my initial point, it generally takes longer to graduate from NE than MD because of the coops.  I posted the four year graduation rate because the NE booster denied this and called me crazy among other insults.[/quote]

But it needs to be pointed out that the delay is NOT a bad thing.  CS majors especially get paid extremely well for Coops.  So it's not really a "loss of one year of earnings".  A CS major doing two 6 month coops is making $35+/hr for 40hr weeks for that year of coop (That's ~$72K for the year). So perhaps slightly lower than they will make as a first year employee, but not enough to say the coop experience is not worthwhile.  So if they do 2 coops and graduate in 5 years (or do 3 coops and take more summer courses), they are still even with someone who graduated in 4 years with just 1 or 2 internships.  IN fact, they are ahead because they have much more real work experience. 
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