How many have you been to? Which one other than UConn was your favorite?
Yeah I've been in Boston/Cambridge for a few years now and know the exact areas you're talking about. Ruggles and that upper part of Huntington and down to Mission Hill look more sketchy than they really are. I think it's because not long ago they really were bad areas. still happens because you're still a city, but if you walk X distance from NEU and land in a sketchy area, you could walk X distance from any other Boston school (besides BC) and find yourself in another bad area.I am also a Northeastern grad who took night classes and walked past the Ruggles T stop every day I was on campus. I don't think Northeastern is even close to UPenn, Drexel or Temple.
Who are we talking about again?How many have you been to? Which one other than UConn was your favorite?
Yeah I've been in Boston/Cambridge for a few years now and know the exact areas you're talking about. Ruggles and that upper part of Huntington and down to Mission Hill look more sketchy than they really are. I think it's because not long ago they really were bad areas. still happens because you're still a city, but if you walk X distance from NEU and land in a sketchy area, you could walk X distance from any other Boston school (besides BC) and find yourself in another bad area.
Storrs = Mayberry
I would think that's a selling point to parents. I'm a parent of a college student and I'd feel pretty good about sending my child to Storrs.
I've had a couple friends do grad school at NU. With their massive grad and undergrad enrollment that area is fairly gentrified. In visiting them many times in places on Kilmarnock in the Fens and right on Huntington I've never feared for my self or my property.Students need to be aware of safety anywhere they go. Among my immediate family we've been to a mix of urban, suburban and small town schools and the only time we've had a problem with crime was my apartment being robbed while in grad school at Cornell. Urban schools are generally safe on campus but can have issues when you get farther away. Nonetheless they are usually OK if students act prudently. My older daughter's grad school dorm at MIT was about three blocks from the campus and directly across the street from the Cambridge homeless shelter, but other than the occasional ambulance pulling up to drop off or pick up a "resident" there was no indication of problems with the location. My younger daughter is at Northeastern and lives in the massive new dorm they built on the far side of the Ruggles train station. In effect, the campus now surrounds the station (they are also building a massive engineering center on Columbus Ave. next to the station) has become a lot safer. I told both daughters to take appropriate precautions and they've loved their urban experience. With both kids I put in a pitch for UConn (I'd like to save $30K per year as much as the next guy), but they wanted to try city living. It's quite a change from CT suburbia.
I like how your subtlety has increased over the years.ECU, Temple, UCF and USF.
They're fine. Nothing special.
Had I known at the time we'd be in a conference with those schools, there would have been more vandalism.
Students need to be aware of safety anywhere they go. Among my immediate family we've been to a mix of urban, suburban and small town schools and the only time we've had a problem with crime was my apartment being robbed while in grad school at Cornell. Urban schools are generally safe on campus but can have issues when you get farther away. Nonetheless they are usually OK if students act prudently. My older daughter's grad school dorm at MIT was about three blocks from the campus and directly across the street from the Cambridge homeless shelter, but other than the occasional ambulance pulling up to drop off or pick up a "resident" there was no indication of problems with the location. My younger daughter is at Northeastern and lives in the massive new dorm they built on the far side of the Ruggles train station. In effect, the campus now surrounds the station (they are also building a massive engineering center on Columbus Ave. next to the station) so it has become a lot safer. I told both daughters to take appropriate precautions and they've loved their urban experience. With both kids I put in a pitch for UConn (I'd like to save $30K per year as much as the next guy), but they wanted to try city living. It's quite a change from CT suburbia.