<p>One slight disagreement with the above post:
Most of your points about the tradeoffs between Boston and Worcester are very good, but NEU is not much safer than WPI. NEU is in the heart of the city and neighbors on a few rough neighborhoods (Roxbury), so I don’t think it is safer.
Both schools have their challenges with their urban environments!
But I agree with pretty much everything else. It is tough to compare these schools as they are very different in size and educational philosophy.
My son loves WPI, but he never really considered NEU because he didn’t like the size and location.</p>