College Selection Advice - NYU, Tufts, UNC Chapel Hill, Northeastern

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  1. The Dean of Northeastern's College of Computer Science was the Chair of the Department of Computer Science. So Northeastern hired away your chair to be the Dean of our equivalent college. NU hired her away in 2014 and she just signed onto a 2nd term.
  2. Dean Broadley has brought in a $50M naming gift for the college and just pulled in a $4M grant from Facebook to spread their intellectual property around MA's in Computer Science for non-CS BA's to Columbia, UIUC, and Georgia Tech (as you mentioned one of the leaders in computer science). They obviously see something worthwhile in that IP and what NU is doing in the area of computer science
  3. Northeastern in closer to MIT than Tufts via public transportation, walking, and is about half the time driving.Those businesses are certainly in Kendall, they are less often in Harvard Square, they are almost non-existent in Medford. NU has much better access downtown where many have moved for cheap rent and certainly the Seaport.
  4. You are undervaluing debt loads impact families, both in terms of how easy they are to pay off and in terms of stress to the person that takes them on. If the OP is getting a loan for the $15K difference that $60K from 4 years can turn into $120K by the time they pay it off. Not everyone find school is for them, what happens if they take on all these extra loans to go to Tufts and then pursue a different career?
  5. NU gives credit for internships as well. That is in addition to co-op.
  6. Why would location specific (which I talked about in #3) negate advantage of co-op? A significant number of students don't do co-ops in Boston. You can go work for Apple in the Bay Area, Amazon in Seattle, you can work at GE down the road. It has little to do with taking advantage of geographic proximity and everything about building relationships and learning more about fields you may want to work in (or learn that you dont) and learning about oneself.
  7. Tufts has 12 CS faculty. Northeastern has 59 according to csrankings.org

8.Tufts is a great school. Northeastern is a great school. Why cant they both be great? In this case one costs a bunch more to a student at least somewhat worried about debt.