Northeastern University vs Boston University

TomSrOfBoston
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:29:15 +0000

While a lot has changed at Northeastern in the past 20 years I must take exception to its reputation prior to that. Northeastern has always provided a solid education to those who were able to take advantage of it. They remained true to their original mission of serving primarily the students fro working class families in the Boston area. Northeastern shared such origins with BU and BC but those schools changed their mission a generation before Northeastern did. The growth of UMass Boston and the changing dynamics of higher education forced Northeastern to change.

In the past they had a policy of giving students the opportunity to succeed. Many did but many also did not and left. The education I received there in the early 1970’s was excellent even without the great campus (and expensive) facilities that exist today.