<p>I mean, the curriculum are not necessarily the same in all ABET-accredited colleges. University of Texas El Paso (a satellite) and MIT are not at the same level of intellectual rigor or hands-on engineering work.</p>
<p>But when it comes to BU, WPI, Tufts, and NEU, I would say that Tufts and NEU are not as strong in engineering, although Tufts is a very strong school academically. Engineering is hands-on though and I think Tufts is somewhat behind in that aspect. NEU has a good co-op program. BU is overpriced and doesn’t give merit aid. WPI is basically the best for engineering in my opinion among these four because it is hands-on, has an academically rigorous academic program, and has good industry connections with big players like GE, IBM, NVIDIA, etc (you may thing I am biased; not denying it, will be a WPI freshman next year).</p>
<p>If you want to go to do graduate work in Engineering, I think BU and Tufts are equally fine choices. My dad tells me that most people don’t have the attention span to do graduate school in this nation and look for immediate employment instead, even if they get funding.</p>