M.F.A from Northeastern University [NEU BOSTON], Boston - Fees & Admission Details 2025

• The fee is charged for each semester. Typically, for each credit in a semester.
• It cost me around $2-2.5k per credit and there were 9 credits per semester.
• Along with that, there were recreational fees, which cost around $100 per semester.
• And a mandatory health plan you pay once in an year  – $2.5
• Monthly expenses should cost nearly $700 if being frugal and can go up to $1500.
• Rent costs at least $400 for living in a shared apartment with at least 6 people or $1700 for living in a private room shared with 3-4 people.
• Indian Groceries should cost less than $200 per month
• Electricity + wifi + gas should cost less than 50-60 per month.
• Transportation is really amazing here especially with trams and buses everywhere.
• If you're a regular traveller, buying a monthly pass at $80 is advised. Otherwise, a weekly pass is $22. Or just $1-2 per ride.

• I live off campus. Most of the international students live off campus.
• On-campus housing is quite expensive, with shared apartments around $2000 to begin with. Compared to around $400 for shared living outside.
• Finding a house is always a challenge. I recommend joining facebook housing groups and whatsapp housing groups. These groups are always active and are always looking for people to provide accommodation.
• My monthly rent ranged from $550 (sharing) to $1200 (private).
• I always used to live within a 2-mile radius of the univ.
• Some students opt for online classes and tend to live far away from the univ., so they can pay less rent.
• Indians are everywhere and it's not a big problem. Join the groups and you're good to go!

• I would say in terms of difficulty, the program was about 5/10. The teaching was almost entirely practical, which I really liked.
• The most positive aspect was that someone not exactly from a CS background could take it and compete with former CS students.
• Almost every class had around a hundred students. The class timings and days depend on the courses you take each semester.
• There were 98% Indian students in my course.

• Tuition fees - 70000$ USD
• This also includes the various other kinds of fees you had to pay, such as the health insurance, recreation fees, admin fees, etc.
• Fees are charged each semester depending on the number of credits you take for that particular semester.
• My monthly costs were around $800, including everything such as rent, utilities, groceries, etc.

• At NEU its depends on you,, and the professor you are taking the course in, same subjects with different professor have different coursework, you can opt for a chill coursework but you will learn less,, or a rigourous coursework but you will learn much more.

• Fee is upto  60k$.

• The difficulty level, I'd say, was a little more than average. Totally different experience from what I learned in India. People here have a more hands-on approach, which actually helps you learn and understand better.
• The positive aspects, I'd say, are definitely better understanding and depth of things and the negatives could be sometimes it can get too challenging
• Mostly there's just one class per day and it'd be. 3 hour class; it also depends on the courses you take if you have labs, etc.
• For my batch, around 80 Indian students were enrolled overall for all courses but as I chose a really niche field for my course, only 4 Indian students were enrolled.

• For the master's programme, you have to complete 30 credits, and the fee per credit is around 1600 USD.
• It depends on how many credits you take per semester to decide the fees.
• If you live close enough to campus, you can just walk by yourself, so there is no money spent on transportation. The rent is the major chunk of expenses. It can vary from person to person and room preference but can range anywhere between 600-900 dollars and utilities for a personal room. Groceries and food will take another 100 dollars at least.

• The difficulty for my coursework was intermediate. As it was a professional course it was very fast paced and practical.
• It was extremely fast paced and that was a bit of a negative experience. However, the course duration is short and the course itself is very practical.

• The fees included credit wise structure.
  It was about $1000 per credit at my time. The fees charged was semester wise. Being a master's student, college accommodation was not compulsory for us. However, health insurance was about 2800$ per year. 

• Monthly expense:

  *800 for rent
  *150 utilities
  *35 mobile bill
  *200 groceries
  *200 fun and entertainment
  *Transportation 100-120 

• The difficulty level was not much for me. For me, the course curriculum is very easy since I love this course. Everything is classified in online app called Canvas.
• Most of it is theory, and not practical are the most positive and negative aspects of my course.

• For entire course, the total cost of entire fees is 80,000 US dollars.
• Per semester, the fees is 21, 000 US dollars.
• Monthly expenses include many things as listed below (per person) - Rent, electricity bill, water bill, WiFi bill, Laundry, groceries,
• Transportation. Everything in total would be around 1000 US dollars. So, this expense would be there for every month. 

• The course that I am in is pretty difficult. As long as you did well in your undergraduate, you would do go in the Masters in AI program at NEU as well, but you have to put in a lot more effort and time into this. The professors here are good and thus they expect much more from the students. The courses here are a mix of both theory + practical. It focuses on theory and projects, along with regular quizzes and assignments, which are quite tough and lengthy.
• My course is very well structured and industry-oriented, I would say. This course has high demand and respect in the industry. The negatives would include that the department doesn't provide the flexibility to waive any course that we have already done and take up something else that we are interested in.
• So at NEU, there's a 32-credit system, so 8 credits to fulfil per semester. Which means 8 hours of lectures per week.
• Indian students make up the majority of my programme, with approximately 50–55% being Indians. Others include Chinese and Americans.

• The entire tuition fee for MS in Artificial Intelligence is 57,100 dollars. I have taken up an apartment with 4 others (off campus housing, which costs me 530 roughly per month for a double-sharing bedroom). Unfortunately, NEU doesn't offer on-campus housing to graduate and PhD students.
• There are various payment options and plans to pay for the fees. Students generally pay the entire semester fee at once. But I use the 4/5 monthly payment plan for the semester fee payment. The per-credit cost for MS in Artificial Intelligence is 1785 dollars.
• Also, there are 3 methods to pay the fees: 1. international wire payment via Flywire; 2. US bank account (e-check); and 3. US credit card.
• Monthly expenses include rent and utilities (electricity, gas, and wifi bill). Rent costs around 530 dollars, and utilities cost around 70-80 dollars max per month.
• I don't have any transportation costs as there's a free bus ride on the route where my house is located. And on top of that, my house is just 1.3 km away from the university, which is pretty convenient.
• The majority of the expenses for me go into buying groceries for the month. It costs me around 100-150 dollars max.
• And another 20-30 dollars for miscellaneous expenses per month.
   

• Everyday, I used to grind by learning new things, juggling through assignments. I used to stay lat nights at University, to complete my assignments and try to catch up with the curriculum. 
• More than theoretical, it is practical in each course, where they offer best hands-on tools to excel. 

• Breakdown of Fees:
• Health Insurance (Per Year) - $2,500
• Totally there are 8 courses, 6 Core Courses and 2 Elective Courses
• Each Core course costs upto $7,000 per semester and each elective course costs upto $6,500 per semester
• Totally 33 credit based. Each course offers 4 credits, and an additional 1 credit for Introduction to Co-Op course, where the advisors help us  to craft my resume, cover letter, help you get into Co-Op. 
• Estimate of my Monthly Expenses:
• Each Semester costs $15,000, for living expenses (the breakdown as follows:
• Monthly rent - $600, Groceries - ($200 - $300), Mobile SIM expenses - $25

• Pretty doable if you set aside time. I took up a challenging course like bioinformatics to test my aptitude. I would say I would rate it 7/10. It was both theoretical and practical. We had coding sessions for courses like BINF6308 and BINF6309 (Computational Methods-I and Computational Methods-II) that can be considered practical and we had theory classes like Biotech Enterprise that cover the fundamentals of biotech and entrepreneurship that could be considered theoretical.
• Positive aspects of the course include industry-level training, world-class faculty members and highly adept teaching resources to learn from. Negative aspects of the course include (this could be specific to my case): not being able to find a full-time opportunity in biotech/bioinformatics, even after graduation due to COVID-19 hitting and also a lack of H1-B visa sponsors. Job attainment after graduation was a turmoil, to say the least.
• For each semester, I was enrolled in 2-3 courses that accredited to at least 8 points.

• Tuition: 24.82 Lakhs , hostel (I lived outside , so I paid around 850 dollars)
• Semester-wise. It is 32 credits.It cost around 6.21 lakhs per semester.
• Monthly expenses came to around 800-1000 USD. Rent: 600 USD/month; Transport: Used Northeastern's RedEye services.
• Regular expenses, i.e., groceries and other utilities, 80–160 USD/month.

The courses are fine some are the latest one and some are old and not that updated. It is an elective so it's on you which you want to select. For Research not a good college but ya they do give good industrial exposure.

68000 USD for 2 years of master's including the medical insurance.