<p>I’m a student at Northeastern. I am not a business major, but I can tell you that I have friends that are, and business students get really good coops. Almost everybody gets coops though, unless there’s something really wrong. I had a hard time finding them my first two years and it got down to the wire, but I ended up with great jobs.</p>
<p>In terms of prestige, I’m not sure I’m the most accurate source, but I feel like Northeastern’s prestige is really rising. Ranking is going up quickly, and most of my friends agree that we would not get in with our high school stats applying this year. They are trying really hard to increase their prestige. I think also, within Boston, employers really respect the coop program. THey’ve gotten good employees from NU coops, so I know there’s a lot of respect within Boston, but otherwise I’m just not really sure. I think it depends a lot on if you want to do coop though. For me, it’s been such a great experience, partially because I’m kind of shy. I will come out of college having been on tons of job interviews (my interview skills have improved enormously) with a solid resume and concrete examples of work that I’ve done. I’m fairly confident that I would not have gotten that at other schools that I was considering. So NU has its up and downsides, but for me, that’s a huge advantage.</p>