[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

Just wanted to mention I'm stunned that no one's mentioned Northeastern University!! So, I'll have to take a couple minutes to try to remedy that by tooting my school's horn! ;-)

They're usually a popular school for FRC students, with their competitive Engineering education, top-notch co-op program, and significant involvement with FRC... 125 (the NUTRONS, a great team in terms of both robots and impact) are based there and they've hosted Beantown Blitz for 8+ years and will now be hosting the Northeastern District Event!

It's a great school that's only been getting better and better over the past 5, 10, and 20 years! I very highly recommend applying! The big selling points for me were their passionate and friendly faculty, great engineering programs, excellent co-op program, and location in Boston... these elements have all proved every bit as great as I thought they would.

Really though, the co-op program is what I have to focus on... Northeastern's partnered with hundreds of great companies (GE, Apple, BAE Systems, Raytheon, QinetiQ, DEKA, Farm PD, Keurig, Johnson + Johnson, Kiva Systems, to name a few) and provide really great opportunities doing real work in Engineering that will pay well too. These companies send a list of job descriptions to Northeastern every year for positions for NEU co-ops to fill... your co-op advisor will work with you throughout the whole co-op hunt process... NEU has high enough demand for their co-ops that they have 100% co-op placement in Engineering!

So, give at least some consideration to Northeastern... I really doubt you'll regret it!

I don't regret it! It's crazy right now to think that, because of the co-op program, a year from now (as an NEU freshman), I'm gonna have a "real-life job" with real-life engineering experience. The co-op program at NEU is really amazing, and as college rankings take that into account (ie. less emphasis on graduating in four years), Northeastern is going up and up in the rankings. I'm sure Brandon Holley can speak more as to the strength of the co-op program.