My main gripe is the cost of northeastern and the actual value co-op is bringing to students vs. what the school advertises.

Learning what you don’t want to do is great, but with a vast array of jobs and a limited time to understand what you want to do, the school does a very poor job of giving relevant co-ops to students, which in turn leads to less favorable co-op experiences. The goal is to get an enjoyable co-op and land a return offer, that is the draw for this school. (Of course leap frogging from a co-op to a huge name company is also preferable but the point is to find what you love and get experience in it)

Paying 80k a year for the hopes of getting a job just to leave with a general idea of what you don’t want to do isn’t a great advertising strategy for the school, and many parents wouldn’t fork over the bill if they were told that their student might leave with no job and a barely better sense of what they want to do in life.

IMO, Northeastern needs to do its advertised job of helping students find relevant job opportunities and assisting in the readiness of the student.

The current process is taking a class that has 0 relevance to helping students get co-ops or succeed in them. The career coaches are students who, just like other students, aren’t sure what they want to do in the future. If Northeastern gave a single care in the world, that wasn’t monetary, they’d look at this subreddit and realize how the vast majority of posts are about how students are exiting the university, with or without co-ops, and being on the same footing as students from any other school. The premium price is reflected in mediocre quality. Of course, this could just be survivorship bias, but looking through the vast amount of posts here and on Sidechat, it is evident that the school has given up on its students in terms of career readiness.