This has been discussed in another CC forum. Northeastern University-New York City will likely be similar to the Oakland camps although details are still being worked out. One possibility is that Northeastern will have a School of Performing Arts based in NYC.
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It’s an interesting model for sure - having multiple branch campuses all over. I wonder if other schools will adopt this model.
Some already do. Emerson College has a large building in Los Angeles. University of Southern California just opened a new building in Washington, DC.
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True. As does NYU.
But I think no one has as many campuses as Northeastern?
Do you expect each campus will eventually specialize, or will they become replicas of the Boston mothership (with a full range of majors and a focus on co-ops in the local areas)?
I think that the biggest advantage of this model is that the colleges can offer dorm space for internships in large cities where housing is expensive and difficult to obtain. UMass Amherst bought a college in a very close-in suburb of Boston, mostly for the dorm space close to Boston, which helped to compensate for the remoteness of the Amherst location. NEU’s purchase of the Oakland college gives it dorm space close to Bay Area internships, and now the same for Manhattan internships. It’s really a very wise investment, with triple value - sound real estate investment, dorm space near valuable internships (particularly crucial for NEU’s co-op model), and “junior college”, tuition-paying feeder campuses for marginal applicants to attend satellite campuses while paying the same tuition as they would have, at the main campus, with the hope of transferring to the main campus eventually, assuming that they can perform up to the level of the satellite campus.
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Exactly, my kid is going to start his first coop in midtown. Very expensive and DIFFICULT to find a room in that area.
I am not sure that any of the dorms of satellite campuses are being used for coop students in those areas. I have not heard that offered for the Oakland campus, but I could be wrong. They are filling those beds students attending those programs.
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It is such an interesting choice. MMC has an excellent and highly regarding BFA program in acting and musical theater that is very well represented on broadway and film. I wonder what will happen to the current students and the class of 2029 with this change that will not help them. Also they give excellent merit to BFA students who often choose it due to price point and this is not the case for Northeastern as a whole.
This is a common misperception. Northeastern did not “purchase” Mills nor is it purchasing MMC. They are mergers. Northeastern assumes the assets and liabilities of the former colleges.
Oh, forgive me! Such a “merger” of equals, to such great advantage for Mills!
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I make the distinction because at the time of the merger some Boston students claimed that their tuition dollars were being used for the “acquisition”. That is not the case.
Would Mills closing or becoming a satellite campus of UCB be to Mills advantage? Those were the only other options.
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They will likely be STEM oriented. The only real physical campuses are Oakland, London, Portland, ME and soon. NYC. The others are graduate campuses in rented spaces that are not intended to create the atmosphere of an undergraduate campus.
Until about 1980 Northeastern’s University College, the predecessor of the College of Professional Studies, offered undergraduate classes at a dozen suburban high schools around Boston. They flourished at a time when there were no community colleges nor was there a UMass Boston. They were long ago phased out.
In a sense the current campuses are an evolution of that, only on a global scale.
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Penn State?
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Agree. Not being “equal” doesn’t necessarily mean it was not to Mills’ advantage. “Advantage” is a relative concept.
So would a student at MMC once the merger takes place be able to automatically transfer to the Boston campus? Is that treated internally or like any other transfer student from a non-NEU campus? Would an MMC student have preference?
Thank you.
I don’t believe that has been determined yet. Everything is at an early stage.
Does this have any effect on the acceptance rates?
it has no effect on the Boston acceptance rate.
So does northeastern accept by campus? I thoguht it was an overall acceptance rate and then they go based off of the ranked campuses
The published acceptance rate is for the Boston campus only.
On the application, students put their preferred location but no guarantee they will be accepted to that campus.
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