We must reinvent ourselves as a practice-oriented university committed to cooperative education. In sustaining this focus, we must capture and combine the mutually reinforcing potential of both professional and liberal education.
Some partnerships just make good sense.
Our faculty cite co-op as a major contributor to the reality and rigor of the classroom experience. And our savvy students know that co op gives them a competitive edge in the marketplace, whatever their chosen field. Co-op programs typically consist of a freshman year of full time study followed by four upperclass years during which students alternate periods of classroom study with work and career experiences. At any given time, about 6,000 students are working in more than 1500 co-op sites in Boston, across the United States, and in many corners of the world. As a co-op student you can discover what you want to do or, as important, not want to do.