Is there huge gap between BC and BU?

shawnspencer
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 03:48:07 +0000

The two schools for the most part are comparable, but very different environments.Boston Unversity is more in the middle of the city, larger, and attracts a wide array of students but lacks a central “campus feel.” Boston College is in more of the suburbs area, follows the Jesuit tradition, and has more students that went to prepatory schools and is generally a more affluent community. I just attended college orientation with my younger brother who chose to attend BC, and the first question he was asked by his roommate was “did you go to a public or private HS?”

The schools have very different environments and I would consider that carefully, far more than any proposed “gap.” I’m also going to put this out there for @tk21769 's statistics, but a considerably higher percentage of Boston College students come from more wealthy families, so it is not unreasonable to assume that this would mean that would affect student’s starting salaries and career choices after graduation. Similarly a school like Colagate for instance has a high earnings reported for students after graduation, but also has a high percentage of incoming students from more affluent families. While I am sure that a school like Boston College has many great resources and great college on its own, I would say not to put too much weight necessarily into the starting salary statistics as there may be extraneous factors unrelated to the school itself. Basically pick based on fit.