Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

Northeastern does have a location plus. Boston is a full-on college city.

I think Boston being a college city is overrated! Many cities have local colleges (including DC, Philly, NYC) and I don't get why everyone thinks going to college in Boston is better than any other city. If you are at BU, are you really hanging out with kids from Northeastern? And if so, so what? I just don't get the hype...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

Northeastern does have a location plus. Boston is a full-on college city.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not this again. NEU has no business being compared with Northwestern. Northwestern is top tier, NEU is a third tier at best.

This, for the thousandth time. The act of comparing the two institutions only serves to make NEU look worse, and is delusional at best. There is no reason to compare the two institutions other than that they happen to share similar names.

Anonymous wrote:Not this again. NEU has no business being compared with Northwestern. Northwestern is top tier, NEU is a third tier at best.

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern U. versus Northeastern U. What elements are better about Northwestern and what elements are better at Northeastern? Which is better overall? Which will be higher ranked 10 years from now? pros and cons of each, please.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

I agree about going with fit.

The score ranges are unfortunately not comparable, as Northeastern did not report stats for a third of the enrolled class - NU.in and international- prior to test optional, for many years, going back to the old Boston magazine article about gaming the rankings (https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/). I have no idea what they are doing with enrollment stats for the satellite campuses going forward, though it would not surprise me if those were reported separately to IPEDS, just because that seems to be what other universities do (not sure what the CDS rules are).

Many schools accept transfer students, 15-3% of their incoming students, and their stats are not included either.
Northeastern's internal transfer student stats are actually very high.

The article basically says there are schools cheating (i.e. Columbia, Berkeley, Emory, etc.), but Northeastern is playing by the rules.
Nonwestern was also accused of cheating in their law schools stats.
Oh Northwestern also has a satellite campus and it's trying to expand as well all over the world
https://www.northwestern.edu/global/

Lol @ “Northeastern is playing by the rules”. Good one PP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

I agree about going with fit.

The score ranges are unfortunately not comparable, as Northeastern did not report stats for a third of the enrolled class - NU.in and international- prior to test optional, for many years, going back to the old Boston magazine article about gaming the rankings (https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/). I have no idea what they are doing with enrollment stats for the satellite campuses going forward, though it would not surprise me if those were reported separately to IPEDS, just because that seems to be what other universities do (not sure what the CDS rules are).

Many schools accept transfer students, 15-3% of their incoming students, and their stats are not included either.
Northeastern's internal transfer student stats are actually very high.

The article basically says there are schools cheating (i.e. Columbia, Berkeley, Emory, etc.), but Northeastern is playing by the rules.
Nonwestern was also accused of cheating in their law schools stats.
Oh Northwestern also has a satellite campus and it's trying to expand as well all over the world
https://www.northwestern.edu/global/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

I agree about going with fit.

The score ranges are unfortunately not comparable, as Northeastern did not report stats for a third of the enrolled class - NU.in and international- prior to test optional, for many years, going back to the old Boston magazine article about gaming the rankings (https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/). I have no idea what they are doing with enrollment stats for the satellite campuses going forward, though it would not surprise me if those were reported separately to IPEDS, just because that seems to be what other universities do (not sure what the CDS rules are).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

Northeastern does have a location plus. Boston is a full-on college city.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not this again. NEU has no business being compared with Northwestern. Northwestern is top tier, NEU is a third tier at best.

They're both top 50 schools per USNWR.

They're both top 40 schools per Money.

They're both top 40 schools per Yocket

They're both top 100 schools per Forbes. (which has always been particularly brutal to Northeastern, yet still ranks it a top 100 of more than 500.)

Nothing "third tier" about either school.

NU is not NEU is.

Anonymous wrote:SAT middle 50% on current USN&WR
- Northeastern: 1410 - 1540
- Northwestern: 1430 - 1550

Not much difference in student pool quality - https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Retention rate - 
- Northeastern: 98% 
- Northwestern: 98% 

Graduation rate - https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/
- Northeastern: 95%
- Northwestern: 91%

Not much difference.  So those high stat kids are satisfied and like to stay at both of the schools.

Median Salary/Outcome - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
- Northeastern: $89K
- Northwestern: 86K

Not much difference.
Both schools get similar good respect from the industries

These two schools really have very similar stats.
Go with fit.

Anonymous wrote:
They have very similar stats in almost all the major areas
I would choose Northeastern in Boston