Wisconsin is well-known for its excellence in STEM and draws heavily from Chicago-area plus east and west coasts. Campus has enough to appeal to all kinds of interests, from the urban feel around Sellery high-rise dorms to the bucolic Lakeshore dorms. There’s good shopping and food on State St, big sports, big name performances in Madison etc. Madison metro area is over 600,000 and the city itself is about 300,000. My alum kid and his friends had no problems getting hired all around the country and few stayed in the Midwest, let alone Wisconsin.
If someone loved the coop program at Northeastern, then by all means, consider that, even with the Oakland start. But Wisconsin is an excellent university which will not limit someone’s outcomes.