Which one would you chose?

taxguy
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:42:32 +0000

I know people whose kids attend both BU and Northeastern. The BU folks for the most part like the school but don’t like the academics. I have never met a finance major at BU, less one that likes finance. In fact, check out BU’s web site. All you can take is 3 finance courses as part of their undergradute business curriculum,which actually looks good. However, three finance courses isn’t what I call a strong finance curriculum. I do think, however, that you will get better liberal art training from Boston University than that found at the other school if that is important.

With Northeastern, the most popular major is business, although not necessarily finance. Thus, NU probably funds their business program fairly well. In addition,Northeastern is known for having a lot of coops,which is good. My problem with Northeastern is that they are NOT known for having quality teaching or academics. Everything that they say about themselves including what students say usually revolves around their being in Boston or about the coop. I thus am a bit leery about them. However, they probably are worth checking out since I don’t know enough about them.

Both Babson and Bentley specialize in business related subjects. You can be sure that they fund these departments as well as they can. Secondly, I don’t think that you can go wrong with the finance training at either school, although Bentley is a bit better known for pure finance and accounting.

This probably doesn’t answer your question with a difinitive answer,but I hope that I gave you some perspective on the schools. Check out the students review web site for comments. Both BU and Northeastern do NOT have the same postivie overall comments and rating as either Bentely or Babson. Again, I can’t opine on the rectitude of those comments since I never attended either school.