Over 15 years of experience in biosciences at universities in the Northeast, West Coast, and South…any health science ranking you look at…the fact that northeastern does not have a full complement of health science schools and facilities, nor an affiliated medical center (which speaks to environment and opportunity)… not have and not unimportantly, the comparative amount of funding coming into the bio and health sciences at these two universities. I won’t get into Northeastern’s reputation around academia for gaming rankings. As someone else said above, it isn’t even really close. The comparative reputations are quite disparate in these fields.