Well, I’ll disagree. Aside from pointing to “rankings” I’d like to see someone explain exactly what they do academically or otherwise that is better at GT.
EE programs are acredited by ABET so the content is going to be much the same at any college. The reputation of engineering colleges is much flatter than that of liberal arts programs. There are a few elite schools such as MIT and Caltech, then a broad middle which employers are going to view as pretty much the same. At the lower end would be schools with weaker students where the curriculum might be softened a bit. That doesn’t seem to apply here; the middle SAT range at NEU is Reading and Writing 680-750, Math 710-790 and at GT it is Reading and Writing 630-730, Math 670-780 so both schools have pretty bright students.
What is going to matter for the future of EE student is what they do. Did they work hard to earn good grades? Participate in campus groups related to their major, especially leadership positions? Did they take part in coop or internships? Two pages discussing coops are career.gatech.edu/what-cooperative-education (which says about 4K out of 26K current students are in coop) and coe.northeastern.edu/academics-experiential-learning/co-op-experiential-learning/co-op/undergraduate-co-op/ which says almost all participate.
Another consideration worth be thinking about – what happens if the student decides against EE? Are they still at the right college? Nationwide about 1/2 of all students starting college as engineers switch to something else. www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/what-prevents-many-ee-students-from-making-it-to-professional-careers is an example link, the percentage has been like this for years. The rate likely is lower the more qualified the entering students. EE undergrad is heavily theory-based and is built on pretty much 4 years of more and more advanced calculus including vector calculus; for a variety of reasons, people decide it isn’t for them.