Cybersecurity at NU

For CS generally at Northeastern, I’d read this, which summarizes the program approach nicely:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developers.html

I’m a bit biased as a Northeastern CS student, but I don’t think UCB will offer any huge difference in CS unless you’re looking specifically at top research. Northeastern grads do well on the east coast and in SV at all the big names, the class offerings are plentiful at both, and you’ll likely find better introductory teaching (see essay above) and smaller/more available class sizes at Northeastern given the crowding of the CS major at UCB recently, plus the major guarantee and cybersecurity specialty of NEU.

You can get an idea from these two data points where the schools stand:

http://csrankings.org/
(#4 vs #23 for research papers to top conferences in past 10 years)

https://hiringsolved.com/blog/hiringsolved-identifies-top-skills-backgrounds-make-2017s-wanted-tech-employee/
(#1 vs #21 for non-size adjusted new grad hires from top tech companies for CS positions)