<p>What type of engineering? I think from either of those schools you can get summer internships, which would accomplish a similar thing but graduate earlier than with a co-op. Also, I don’t know whether you are on financial aid, but I’m not sure how they will treat the co-op money and the lower tuition if you are on FA. It could be you end up paying an extra year’s worth of “discounted” tuition because of the co-ops. I know you would go to school less, but if you’re financial aid results in less than 2/3 of the NU full price, it seems you could end up paying more overall.</p>