for EA, did anyone get rejected or only deffered?
Thanks for the info. We figured as much but the question came up. At some point if this becomes the top choice we will do more research on the London experience and pluses/minuses. My oldest has a friend that was in Oakland his first year (and this is a Bay Area kid so the initial thought was “boy that’s a downer”) - he ended up really liking the experience and made a bunch of friends before getting to Boston his second year. It’s all kid and situation dependent.
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1 of my friends was rejected for CS
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For those who were accepted to NUin, even though the 2026 locations aren’t announced yet, you can get a sense of the courses that might be available at various locations by looking at this page (currently shows 2025 courses available): 2025 N.U.in Program Curriculum - Northeastern - The N.U.in Program
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I’m surprised they don’t “recommend” for majors - for example, if you are in engineering, you should attend this campus.
I’m surprised they don’t share something like that with the applicants up front.
I wonder if there are some majors not set up for NUIN - like they can do it from the school POV, but from the student POV, there might be better choices outside or if they can meet all first year needs curriculum wise.
I’m just surprised they’re not more pointed up front to help kids who now might be confused.
It’s right there on the page, just use the dropdown to select a program.
ahhhh - missed that. Thank you.
No wonder they’re such a good business - they’ve really developed an in depth and detailed model.
@TomSrOfBoston …or anyone else who might know…if you go to NU.in can you easily switch majors. Not really asking for my kid because she would never, but…there is a drop down menu on the portal page that looks like it allows you to just switch if you want to and all the majors in all the different schools are listed. It even says to be sure to refresh the page so that your new major is correctly displayed…which kind of implies you can just do it without approval?
So if my artist - accepted Nu.In for CAMD, wanted to switch to something unrelated and in a different school…could she just do it? I mean she would still start first semester abroad but that’s pretty amazing that you can just pick from a drop down menu and switch to a different school and major. I know some very talented artists not planning to study art that could potentially get in for art and then just switch?
Last year when we researched there was only a limited course selection for the first year there. Some students will like being part of a small cohort and living in the heart of a big city.
I’ve read about it - campus options are dependant on your major. For instance -for Biology (in previous years) you could only attend certain campuses so you could get your required courses. See tamagotchi’s post -that link has details. You just have to sift through it.
ETA: AND I see now that you have that info! Sorry! 
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Regardless of campus admitted to, a student can easily switch majors/colleges prior to enrolment in September. I believe the only exceptions are switching INTO nursing, pharmacy and portfolio programs in CAMD.
For NUIn, the switch would have to be done before finalizing location choice.
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interestingly my student switched into the pharmacy major (6yr-PharmD program) but he was originally a Pharmaceutical Science major anyways so that is probably why they allowed the switch.
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You can see the course offerings for last year here:
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Anyone received Stamps Scholarship invitation? My daughter received admission on Wed (01/28) for NU.In Honors Boston.
FWIW as pointed out later, I think Northeastern really prides itself on figuring this out for engineering/sciences and is very much designed for it -and point out going abroad at beginning is so much easier, as the courses are set up for it (and later it is actually trickier (for normal reasons)). Makes sense from an admin perspective - HUGE number of their students need to take Calc 1/2, intro physics, chem, etc. in addition to first year English or whatever.
It was interesting that someone who did NUin found almost their whole cohort were engineers (and almost all STEM) (probably by design behind the scenes)
I have no personal ties to NE, besides having worked with lots of past coops and alums awhile back.
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In my S23’s year at least, the courses offered through NUin (even at the STEM friendly locations) didn’t line up very well with what he needed, given that he already had AP credit for Calc 1/2, intro physics, intro chem, and first year English. He would have been able to take Calc 3, and beyond that just gen eds. In practice it would have set him back almost a year compared to starting in Boston with the same credits, because some courses for his major were taught on a full year schedule. It was surprising to us that the courses overlapped so much with his AP credits, because we assumed that most engineering admits to a selective school like Northeastern would likely have had the same set of standard AP / IP / DE courses!
But I think they have now expanded the first year engineering options at some of these locations.
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Interesting! Thanks for sharing that! I had heard (through a friend of a friend, admittedly) of a different experience, that it all was Ok, but either a) may have changed or b) slightly different program etc etc. That is why I took reddit post as valid.
I would have been royally peeved if they told me it was friendly to my major and I was actually behind and passed everything…like to point of going up flagpole to Deans and admin.
I was accepted EA into engineering even though I did not take physics. Are they able to rescind me?
Did you represent your courses and grades accurately on the SRAR? Why would they rescind you?
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Students would not be “behind” technically, because they will still be on track to complete their degree in 4 years… but they could be behind where they WOULD be, if they had started in Boston.
Here is an example: My D26 was accepted to NUin for bioengineering. We can look at the curriculum for bioengineering here: Bioengineering, BSBioE (Boston) < Northeastern University Academic Catalog
Standard AP credits for Calc BC, Physics C, Chem, Bio, and Lang, would cover all of my D’s course requirements for freshman year except GEs, and would also cover the Physics classes in fall semester sophomore year.
So with a Boston fall start, my D would be going directly into the specialized BIOE classes for her major, plus Calc 3.
Now I’ll go to the 2025 NUin course offerings (to get a sense of what might be offered), and select “Engineering” to filter the locations. Note that a NUin student isn’t guaranteed their first choice location, but they are guaranteed to end up at some site that matches their major. So, my D would be placed at one of these 5 locations:
- NUin Czech Republic is the first site listed for Engineering. This site doesn’t even offer Calc 3. My D would be taking nothing but GEs.
- NUin Greece offers Calc 3, but nothing else that applies to D’s major.
- NUin Ireland offers Calc 3, but nothing else that applies to D’s major.
- NUin Northern Ireland doesn’t seem to offer Calc 3. She would be taking just GEs here.
- NUin Spain has a Statics class listed (yay!) plus Calc 3. This Statics class would count for many engineering majors (although this particular one isn’t listed on the curriculum for BioE, so I’m not sure if it would count).
When we looked at this for my S23, the sophomore classes for his engineering major were only taught once a year, and the Fall classes were prerequisites for the Spring classes. If he had been able to start in Boston, he would have gone directly into the sophomore classes in his major… but if he had started in NUin, he would have had to wait until the following year to start on that prerequisite chain. His entire freshman year would have been taken up mostly by GEs and a couple of math classes. That is what I mean by being behind one year.
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