Northeastern University
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21 Student Reviews of Northeastern University
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Northeastern sucks. Couldn’t agree more. Everyone there is a scumbag.
This school sucks so much sick it isn’t even amusing. The leadership sucks, the alumni sucks, the administration sucks, the faculty sucks, the current students sick, the future students sick. Every single one of these groups did their best to hurt and harass me. I hope they all burn in hell. I was rejected from every club, group and fraternity. I was a nice man but have been turned into a monster since the 20 plus years since I left. I have no friends and a job that blows chunks. To all associated with northeastern F**K YOU!!!!
Northeastern sucks. This school screwed me every which way when I was beyond nice to everyone and went out of my way to accommodate others. The administration isn’t even on the level of ineptness. I make sure I run it in the face of the person who calls me asking for money so I can tell them about all of the unwanted rejection I experienced. The alumni sucks. The leadership sucks. My primary duty at this point is to convince people not to come for their education at this shithole. I would leave negative stars as feedback if I could.
As a master’s student in Pharm Sci department……
my favorite professors seem to be jaded by the uncaring culture of the institution.
No support for guiding students through administrative processes.
Don’t be surprised if you receive attitude or flippant responses from staff or TAs.
Entrepreneurship professors give great advice on how to optimize service for customers. It’s a shame that the institution doesn’t ask them for such guidance for their issues.
Career services seems like the only department that enjoys their job and performs exceptionally.
After 3 semesters here, I have personally had a great experience. My peers are all friendly and crazy interesting from all over the world. I work with a great research professor and could only be happier if housing were cheaper.
The kids who go here (yes, they are kids) are entitled and spoiled brats. They are not friendly at all. Also, the quality of the courses is lackluster. Not sure why their reputation is so great, honestly as someone who went through the 5 year program, my co-ops were OK but the college life as a whole sucked. In hindsight, I would have went to a state school, saved my parents tons of money and had more fun along the way, and I would still be in the same situation I am in now — entry level job.
While Northeastern University is currently ranked in the top 50 on the US News Best National Research University rankings, it is anything but a top academic institution. What I gathered from my academic experience is that the school has overall a mediocre student body, core of mediocre professors and an environment not conducive to your traditional college experience. The experience that I received at Northeastern was anything but exemplary, here’s the rough breakdown:
1. Stimulating Courses – While there were several stimulating courses, the quality of the professors that I had were far lower than in similar ranked institutions like Boston University (which I think is a far better school academically) and in lower institutions like Umass Boston (which invests most of their money on good professors)
2. Quality of Professors – I had some friends in some doctorate programs that mentioned that the quality of professors would be rather poor to mediocre and they were not wrong! There were very few highly intellectual top-notch academics here as almost all of them were mediocre teachers, but also mediocre researchers. Very few Award-winning academic researchers, along with a general lack of the great undergraduate teaching that some other similarly-ranked institutions have.
3. Networking and the “Co-op” – While this school has a good reputation for their Co-op Program, they lack a conclusive job placement program after graduation. Since they focus so much effort on the very working class “Co-op” program, they forget to aggressively market their students in the REAL job market. You should clearly ask them questions about this before deciding to go here.
4. Campus – One of the best things about Northeastern University was the location in Downtown Boston, the MFA, Symphony Hall and close proximity to a much more intellectually-enlightened student population (Check out Boston University, Boston College, Tufts University, Harvard University and MIT)
5. Overall – I would definitely say Northeastern is extremely overpriced for what you get from it, especially since the Co-op Program is only geared in helping those with internships not with real placement after graduation. The intellectual environment here is
DON’T EVEN BOTHER!
The staff DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU. THEY ARE HERE TO MAKE MONEY AND GO HOME.
This is true for ADMISSIONS, REGISTRAR, ATHLETICS, PROFS, EVERYBODY. You will see delay after delay after delay for the simplest paperwork, can’t be seen by a doctor etc etc
I passionately dislike this school! Went there 3 semesters before I transferred out! Worst year and a half of my college life!!!
I guess I haven’t discovered the beauty of this school as what has been stated in many positive student reviews .But personally, I will not recommend this school to anyone who wants to receive quality education by paying a fair price. The tuition is almost $20,000 for one semester (I bet it will be much higher if more international students are recruited), however, the length is only 14 weeks (stated on my course syllabus, plus the spring break time and other federal holidays. I don’t think any students will be able to have one more week at school in fall semester). From the quantitative perspective the tuition is overpriced. Moreover, the educational quality is ridiculously advertised by the school. Northeastern claims that every accepted student will have the opportunity of spending an additional year(formally called “co-op”) and receiving a “valuable” work experience of working at big firms, but it will not tell you the opportunity is limited to a specific group of people: people who are not get interviewed will be arranged to work at school registrar or other place with a lower paycheck.
In regard to take classes, the school officials who are responsible for designing courses are very “considerate”: because they care about students’learning progress, people at lower class standing cannot register up level classes as an elective; and if you forget to register your courses immediately after receiving a time ticket, you will be fortunate to take less than 4 courses, which greatly reduces your school workload (lol, except the only drawback is that you have to pay the full tuition). There are good professors, but they expect students to solve difficult problems on their own (isn’t it ironic? if I was able to figure answers out why would I go to school? how come they get paid as professors without doing what professors should do?) Bad professors share the same trait and they can’t even get through a single study point (I had a professor who loved to teach students things that were not related to his field of study; as a result, I wasn’t quite sure my learning objectives were fulfilled although I had no absence).
Going to college is one of the most important decisions that everyone makes in his/her life. If you really value job experiences, Northeastern might be the place to choose (if you are pretty sure that you will get a job); otherwise, do not waste your money there.
Graduated in 1999. The engineering, math and physics classes are the best in the world. But the problem with NU holding it back from being ivy league is this: First, the ladies at the Coop program just care about collecting a paycheck every week. There is no real help with job placement especially after graduation. Second, little compatibility between what is learned and what you need to get hired at companies. And finally, when a guy like myself applies to work at Mcdonald’s and later gets hired as a security guard, and the bosses there know that I graduated from Northeastern, well, word gets around.
So this is a suggestion: completely reorganize the Coop program, and other admintrative offices and fire those dumb fat asses collecting a paycheck every week.
i attended northeastern for a shitty 4 years. spent way to much money for a school that gave me little to no education. I’m still in debt paying for that nonsense 10 years later. Do your self a favor and go to the local community college. (cheaper and better education). The professors are useless and dont give a s**t about you
It sucks
NEU provides a good education but it’s not truly worth what they charge you. Other nearby colleges offer the same for less!
This college is something of a paradox for me. On one hand, the professors in my major (Poli Sci) have been some of the best teachers I will ever have in my life. They have pushed me to be a better student, and I am a better person for it. I have had professors push me and at the end say “If you do not get a doctorate, it will be a waste of your skill and talent.” Truly, I am grateful thousands of times over for what they have done in molding me into a better student.
Then there is the administration. I made an appointment with the career counseling office to get a head start on job hunting. The counselor looks at my resume and cover letter and says “You’re fine. Not much I can do to help you.” What. I then go and dig for a few hours on the school’s long-forgotten sites to find a paltry amount of links and networks for job hunting.
They refuse to accept a national standard (CLEP) even though nearly every other school I read up on accepts their testing score. This lead to a sticky situation where I didn’t have the prerequisite for a required course due to having CLEP’d out of ENG101 while at my previous school. In trying to find the answer, I was bounced between 4 departments 8 times, because each one said that my request was actually the job of one of the other three.
Then I managed to find an internship (through no help of their own). When the organization requested my transcript, I sent it out. Due to a clerical error, the “ATTN:” part of the address was cut off, preventing me from starting the internship for 3+ weeks (and counting). It was cut off due to a character limit that was not mentioned on the transcript request form. I understand this may not seem like much, but considering transcripts get sent to many institutions which require “ATTN: Jane Doe” in order to keep letters from being lost, it should be seen as a big deal.
That being said, the Financial Office is the only part of the administration which has been incredibly attentive, caring, and great.
Are you kidding, only in your dreams is Northeastern better than BU. Northeastern is way WAYYYYY too expensive and the education is sub-par when compared to other nearby colleges, it’s much more expensive than Harvard for God’s sake. I don’t care how much history or how old this University is when you have the education quality declining year after year. Student quality has declined drastically!
Comments speak for itself! Not recommended.
i would give everything 0 stars if i could. this school, quite frankly sucks. who do these people think they are, chargining +$40,000 dollars for a semester here?! this isn’t uchicago, people, this is a tier 2 school full of idiots. everyone who goes here seems to think they go to such a great, prestigious school: newsflash people. you don’t go to stanford. there’s no prestige. this is the 70th ranked college in the country. not really that good. stop priding yourself on getting into a completely mediocre, fallback school. the school is filled with people who really wanted to go to bc, bu, tufts, or nyu but couldn’t get in/couldn’t pay. everyone who goes here is completely self-centered and not friendly at all. the students are jerks, and the administration is full of inept retards. the teachers are a bunch of grad students/foreigners who are basically getting taught english by the students. my math teacher was romanian and his accent was completely not understandable and barely spoke english. the dining halls, while diverse, are diverse with different kinds of s**t food. there is no school spirit, and this school really has to stop showing off it’s co-op program. newsflash people: it’s a glorified internship. you’re not special northeastern, just because you offer a course on how to get co-op. every school can get people a f*cking internship. that’s no reason to go here
you know how in high school teachers warn you will you go to a bad college if you don’t work hard? this one is it.don’t aspire to go here. aspire to go to a school that’s actually prestigious and good, instead of just pretending to be. go to emory, or uva.
ps – northeastern, YOU suck. not bu. get over it.
These people are elitist jerks and snobs- they scuk- don’t waste your money.
If your mommy and daddy are not paying for yoru education and you need to deal with the financial aid people- look out- they will charge you for courses you didn’t take- and deny you financial aid. They will also lose all of your paperwork and make you re-do all of it ten times. I have never seen such incompetence in my life. The admin people treat you like crap and rip you off- this university is no better than the diploma mills you find online.
GO somewhere else.
Northeastern is really puzzling to me. It’s urban, but in a funny section that feels like it’s right off a highway (that would be the ridiculously busy Huntington Ave.) and wity nothing really cool in the immediate area. It’s “diverse” and “liberal”, but everyone looks, acts, and does the same fucking thing. Lots of people have attitude. This is also a school that is out of reach because of extremely high costs. A lot of people that do get in are among society’s most spoiled and privileged. Compassionate, interesting, and community contributors they ain’t. So while Northeastern would seem to be the perfect antidote to get out of isolated suburbia and experience liberal Boston urbanity, it’s really a small isolated little world of its own with definite drawbacks.
Courses are average. When I attended, the art department was in shambles. They REALLY needed to get their act together. Everything else by my estimation was pretty run of the mill.
Professors, are, like most institutions, the only saving grace. Some of them are bizarre, elitist and obnoxious Baby Boomers. But others genuinely care about students and want them to challenge themselves.
The administration hovers over NU like some governmental Big Brother. The NU administration is big, fat, bureaucratic, and couldn’t care less about YOU the student.
Housing is unexceptional and not guaranteed. Underclassmen dorms feel cartoonish.
Dining is extravagant yet somehow unsatisfying. It seems like they offer a lot, but it’s really not that much. Also, lines form often during rush hours. So you have to wait a while just to get bland meals.
The student body is extremely immature. A lot of spoiled preppy kids, though I’m sure “emo” types have now infiltrated as well. Somewhat attractive, yet really arrogant, cold-hearted, and detached from reality to put it mildly. Everyone forms cliques and can’t see past their own egos. It’s extremely hard to make quality friends. Sad folks!
The area around campus is pretty unexceptional. You have to walk about 2-4 miles to get anywhere interesting, although the Museum of Fine Arts is just down the street. The really only good attribute of the “Huntingtion Ave” area is the Ruggles commuter rail stop, which can take you all over the northeast corridor if you want to really escape.
Overall, NU feels like a grandoise rip-off. It offers “everything” in the sense that it’s in Boston, has a big flashy gym, and a certain degree of prestige now (where the f**k did that come from??) yet it feels like you’re getting absolutely spit squat. The price is too high, and the results are way too little.