Students discover their strong and weak points through co-op employment.
Students develop greater understanding of other people and learn varied techniques of human relations by their personal contact with their fellow workers and peers. They're given responsibilities to bear, and through these, learn to work efficiently under pressure. Success in a particular assignment provides the student with a higher degree of self-confidence for their future work. On the whole, industrial experience for co-op students broadens their outlook and aids them in their social development toward that of the professional persons they hope to become. Cooperative education, which provides students with regular income-producing jobs, to pay part of their college expenses, makes higher education possible and attractive to many qualified young people who could not otherwise afford to go to college.