I went to NU. I am looking at GT for grad school. That is a difficult one. If NU was much more expensive than GT, I would say go to GT. It sounds like the cost is about the same… You can definitely be successful at either school. NU really hand holds students through getting Coops and jobs. They have great connections with companies across all industries. They are also becoming an elite school. The acceptance rate is going to be around 15% and seems to go down every year. GT probably does less hand holding. It is a large public university… one of the best public universities in the country, but still a large public school. GT is also more highly regarded in engineering than NU, and most every other school aside from MIT and Stanford… So, both are great schools that are difficult to get into, I would look at Boston vs Atlanta. Those are completely different environments. Both great cities, but that will probably be the largest contrast.