Northeastern University is a private research university (Carnegie Classification Research II) located on a sixty-seven acre campus in Boston, Massachusetts between Symphony Hall and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The main majors offered are Engineering, Business, Computer Science, Law, Physical Therapy, and Criminal Justice with about 13,000 full-time undergraduate students and 774 full-time professors.
A five-year university, Northeastern incorporates a co-op program whereby students spend half their time in classes and the other half working in three to six month internships with companies in their field of study. Currently operates on quarters, as opposed to the traditional semester, but will convert to semesters in the fall of 2003. Base tuition for freshman is approx. $20,000, approx $17,000 for upperclassmen. Division I athletics.
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
http://www.neu.edu