 So if there was a popularity contest among universities in the US, this one would be a top contender. Can you guess where I am? Well, this is the Northeastern. So today I'm in Boston and we are spending a day at the Northeastern University. Every Indian student at some point or the other would have definitely considered Northeastern as one of their options. So in this video, I'm going to be taking you around the campus. So if you want to know more about Northeastern and you're thinking of applying here, then you will get a real and authentic account of the life here. So if you have applied to Northeastern and you are looking forward to coming here, then this video will help you in your visa interview preparation. We will try to find as many unique points about the university as possible. And yeah, let's get started. Co-op culture in all of the US. Yeah, so co-op is kind of an internship. So during your coursework, you can apply for a job full-time for years with studies. You can have a free, you know, that kind of a thing with how the office work and everything will be. So you'll have a gist of that. You'll have a hand of that. And after that, when you start applying, you can show that you have already been a part of a company that's good. And you'll be able to show them your work before, you know, getting over with your graduation and everything. So it gives you a real feel of the industry right when you are studying as a college student. So that is very helpful for people who don't have like much experience. They have first time they are coming to US. So we also get a lot of questions about Northeastern. One of the most commonly asked question is how does co-op work? What does one need to do before? What does one need to do once they're here? So can you just explain the entire process? So before applying for co-op, Northeastern has a course. That course is called Intro to Co-op. So you need to take that course. In that course they will explain. Yeah, you can take it in the first semester or second semester whenever you feel like necessary. But after you come here, right? Yeah, after you come here definitely. So you can take that course and in that course they explain like how you can build up your profile, how you can write a good resume, a cover letter. You can like they explain you about a new works which is a platform of Northeastern. In that platform they actually provide you the opportunity like the company's advertise. It's like a job portal inside Northeastern. So it is only for students of Northeastern. So they can directly put their resume in a new works and directly apply for companies. Northeastern has types of companies. So whenever there is a posting available, apart from LinkedIn and whatever job sites that they have, they make sure that they post it on the new works and the advisor that guides you for the co-op. As I mentioned that you have a course called Intro to Co-op. So it is different for different subjects and different departments. So basically I also had that course in my third semester or second semester depends. I took it in my second semester. Basically they tell you is that they show you how to build up the resume as you told and apart from that you have mock interviews and everything. So kind of a one-to-one session and they take care of most of the important questions that they can have irrespective of your field or what your interests are. So every I think student who looks to study in US will think about research at some point or the other. So what's the research focus here in Northeastern? So research is actually, so the thing is that I want to... You work for the biotech. Yeah, I'm for the biotech. Yeah, we're just from the biotech. So I personally chose a BSE because I wanted to go in a research field. So the reason I chose Northeastern is that there's a building called ISAC. You can see it from here. It's a very well-made, well-architected, the one behind. It's very well-architected. So that's the main building where most of the professors have their research labs and everything. And before came here, choosing between BU and Northeastern, the thing that I like the most is that most of the professor have a background from the job side or from the pharmaceutical side. So what helps me is that if I... So I've actually volunteered in one of the labs with the professor. So I worked under him. He told me how the work culture is, how it is different in academic portion, how it is different in the work, in the normal business side. What are the key things that you should focus if you are thinking of going into the academics? The academic part. Because for me, it is divided into two things. Your academics, where you go into the PhD and stuff, and kind of a business thing where you go into the pharmaceutical and just walk over there. So the research... So the research... So for Northeastern, it's kind of in between both. So if you want to go for academics, you can have that as well. And if you want to go for the business point of view, you can go for that as well. That's why I actually chose Northeastern because I, coming from just an academic background, didn't have any knowledge on how to transition between those two. So for me, it would work pretty well. If at all, I chose to not go into the academics, but have my legs one in there, one in there, so I can have both of that. And how is the research infrastructure? So research is actually good. You have most of the late... So there is a section in the Isaac where you have most of the one time... It's like most of the very well-advanced technologies with respect to the industries in the field, you have that in one section of the building and you can always access it through the professors. So if you want to learn anything at any point of it, you just shoot up a view of the professor, let them be interested in this field. You have an interest, you show them your work, you show them your interest, your resume and everything. And maybe they'll just get on to you and you can just... Is there any specific research lab? Anything unique? The one that I have seen is the nanotechnology and the neuroscience. I've never been into the neuroscience ones, but I've been into the nanotechnology and I've actually used up two of these. So these would be the most advanced labs? Yeah, most advanced, yeah, actually. Great. And what about your data science and data engineering, right? Yeah, data science, data engineering. What's the research focus? Yeah, if you talk about the research focus in data science, AI in general, so a lot of things are happening in Northeastern actually. If you are talking about research only, like Northeastern faculties, they publish a lot of papers every year and various cutting-edge domains in AI. And I would also say like Northeastern, they very well balance out between the industry and the academia. And there are professors who are very well-distinguished professors from the academia. And they are publishing like very good papers. And the students are also like, they are working with the professors and they are also publishing a lot of papers. I personally know a lot of people, like I have not been here for that long, but still I know a couple of students who have like published paper, like publishing paper is something. They are working with professors. Yeah, they are working with the professors and they are publishing papers. And that paper is also getting like the top ranks in certain conferences. So it's like they are being nominated for Best Paper Awards. And so like it's a very good... So there are plenty of research opportunities. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Northeastern also they have like their own high-performance computing labs. So it's like a powerful computer lab which they have and there you can run like the state-of-the-art algorithms. So it's like a very cutting edge and they are like right where they should be. So what is your typical class should you like? So for me, I have classes on four days of the week. The classes generally... I'm in the College of Engineering. I have like four days in a week classes. So classes are like two types of classes. One is like the normal length class which roughly ranges around one and a half hours to an extended class. Like for a subject you can expect like two classes in a week. And if you don't have two classes then you'll probably have one class and that one class will be around three and a half hours to four hours. So you're coming to campus thrice a week basically? Four times a week for your classes. I don't have classes on Monday and rest all the days I am coming to the campus. And how much preparation do you need before attending a class? Not much actually. The classes are quite good. They teach everything from the basics. So even if you're just attending the class without any prior knowledge of that subject I think the class is sufficient for you if you're paying attention. Classes are sufficient. The faculty and teaching quality is very good and not decent. Living it depends. So first of all are you living on campus? No I'm not living on campus. So for undergrad it's like that that you are for the first year you have to live on campus on terms or anything like that but master's only is not compulsory so you can always have of campus housing. So you can either reach out to university of campus housing. You can always go to sites like Solekha and there's Zillow and everything but you can just ask your friends they have lots and lots of papers and everything like that. So the first thing that you have to decide and what I would prefer is for the first six months or the first year to stay near the college I have a hand of everything the hand of transportation how everything is connected so that you know when you once move for the back from university you have a transport and everything. So for the first six months when I came I used to live in Poison Street it's near like 0.91 mile from university after that from I think fall 21 I shifted to Brighton it's around 3.7 miles from the university. The reason for me was that for the rent rent is comparatively lower and the second thing is that the house over there is much more bigger as compared to what we get near the university but as you know we have lots and lots of I mean house campuses and everything over here but they are comparatively much more smaller and compact so for example the rent of my previous house was around 600 without utilities so with utilities it was around 700 but right now I am being like 600 including utilities over here. So like you know it saves me 100 dollars but it also adds up to transportation cost but the thing is that if you overall add it up technically it's much more better to live far with giving transportation cost because you get nice home you get everything. So what I would say if you buy groceries all the time I think only 250 would be okay so if you are living near the college having 700 as your rent I think right now it's around 750 but let's go on the lower side so 700 plus 250 so that's around 950. So if you do not do anything else just your living expenses and your food would be around 950,000 in Boston. And if you get an on-campus job or if you get an on-campus I think you will be able to get your monthly expenses even after the tax because once your tax gets deducted as you know after the students they cannot have your tax so at the end of the year when you fill up the form and everything you will get your tax back so you would still be able to make around 1100 per month which you would be able to have your monthly expenses. The unique thing about Northeastern is like I have seen like I have a couple of friends who are studying in different colleges in US but Northeastern they have a very strong Indian culture which is going on in this campus like whenever you see any master students 95 to 99% chances that guy is an Indian guy 95% wow what is the strength total students strength total students strength is like the bachelor's master's PhD or just the master's just overall like Indian students Indian students actually there is something like 7,000 11 students or something like that but it is in general you see like 6,000, 6,500 Indian students definitely in the campus so Indians there is a lot of Indian students and on top of that there is this Inyo sanskriti group which is like the Indian community in Northeastern and this Inyo sanskriti community they host the largest number of events across any school in USA so like for any kind of event tell it like Onam, Diwali or any kind of like any kind of event you definitely find something which Inyo sanskriti is hosting so that was very good for me initially when I joined I got a chance to be a part of Inyo sanskriti where I met the other guys as well but then like the work the study pressure is too much so I had to step down but I definitely made probably in the coming semesters you can because first semester is usually the biggest yeah yeah it's very hectic and also you have to get used to the culture and then study wise it's like quite hectic so there is an organization called Inyo Trips I was actually not able to go with them but like some of couple of my friends were actually able to go so they are an organization who manages and you know manages trips and everything so if you want to go with them they manage trips and everything yeah so what happens is that they went on a tracking trip like last month I think so you just have to sign up give some amount of money for the you know the stuff you know the clothing and the everything you know the bags and everything the gears and everything and you just go with them and have you done anything in the last one month um I I mean you have to spend like you have to spend a lot of time trying to get the basic things sorted but after coming here I joined a couple of clubs actually I have I have joined like a couple of clubs which include like entrepreneurship club as well as there is data science club as well as I was part of the Indian community as well as there are a lot of clubs we have cricket clubs we have Tetris club I am actually a part of a club called Tetris club so the main thing is that they meet every week on a specified time and just play games and stuff like that yeah almost all the clubs are like they will meet like once a week for about one hour or two hours and it's not just restricted to master it's like everybody can come and join there are a lot of clubs in northeastern yeah so I hope this video has helped you understand more about northeastern about the life in Boston how it would feel to actually study here and we have a lot more videos in this series about US universities so do make sure to subscribe check out the entire playlist and for more in-depth preparation when it comes to your visa interview do reach out for a one-to-one session with me the details of all of this is in the description box below signing off for now see you in the next one bye