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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]

40 to 50 percent 4 year graduation rates still significantly higher than the 13 to 20percent rates at NE. [/quote]

Duh---that means only 50-60% of their engineering students do COOPs.  At NE, majority of students actually do coops---in all majors (because WTH would you attend NE if you didn't want to do coops?).  There are more kids pushing for just 1 coop and to finish in 4 years now, so hence the 13-20 %.  You are comparing apples to oranges and that's not very worthwhile or fair. 
  At most schools, only stem/engineering students do coops and even then it's not nearly 100%.  AT NE majority of kids do coops, so of course their 4 year grad rate will be significantly lower than most.  Don't just look at high level numbers and claim "the rate is low"   Look at what the data means and the full picture---and I say this as definately NOT a NEU booster.  [/quote]

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