<p>I smiled when I saw this post as it’s been my son’s decision to make since November. From the start of the process after visits to several schools NEU was #1 and Pitt was #2. Meanwhile, because of rolling admission he has been accepted with conditional acceptance in Pharmacy, Honors College and has been offered a full tuition scholarship for four years to Pitt. We are waiting to hear from NEU. We have visited Pitt again and met with a rep from their school of Pharmacy. We were so impressed with their program, and the school as a whole. It is a great school for any type of medical field. They don’t have a co-op program per say, but you have the opportunity to do research starting in your Freshman year. We were also pleasantly surprised with the City of Pittsburgh. There is a lot to offer and is much easier to get around than Boston. My son likes both cities after visiting so he’s very comfortable with being in either one.<br>
So, even if he gets $20k a year from NEU as a scholarship (which would be on the high side), that still leaves 4 years at about 30K and 2 years at about 50K so 130k
Pitt is 4 years at 10K and 2 years at 35K so 80K. I do realize that either school may offer scholarship money for years 5 and 6 so these are very rough numbers.
When you consider Pharmacy students regardless of the school they attend have nearly 100% employment, it would be hard to justify NEU over Pitt financially.<br>
BTW-- our next door neighbor is a Freshman at Rutgers in the Pharmacy program and loves it. She’s on an athletic scholarship.</p>