Participating in cooperative education provides an opportunity to evaluate potential career employees. Cooperative education students can perform well on some professional-level assignments, thus freeing career employees for more advanced responsibilities. Cooperative education is a proven career exploration tool. In that process they determine which positions interest them and which do not. Salary was ninth in a choice of sixteen reasons for job choice, location twelfth.
Cooperative education provides a ready source for obtaining employees.
This site will eventually include the majors offered by all schools in the Network . Some of those schools are on the quarter system, others on the semester system and still others on hybrid schedules. Some schools offer parallel cooperative education programs that enable a student to work half time while going to school half time. Until we are able to get a structure established for the schedules of schools online, feel free to peruse the material provided by contacting the direct sites of many of the schools listed. Co-op arrangements are ideal for technology transfer.