I am not sure what program you kid wants, but they do, by all accounts, have a really quite good engineering department… It is higher (though not big difference) than UVM, UNH or UMaine for engineering in us news…(I take rankings with big grain of salt, but I also do not think they are entirely meaningless)
And a pretty high % of kids live on campus (close to 40%), that is about the same as URI. I imagine more Lowell kids do commute home (vs off campus apartments) but still…