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Welcome to your information source for Cooperative Education, or “co-op”. It’s a college program that integrates your classroom studies with paid, productive, real-life work experience in a related field.
How the Co-op program benefits YOU:
Enhances your classroom learning by integrating academic curriculum and real-world work experience.
Confirms or redirects your career decision-making through on-the-job experience in a chosen field.
Enhances the affordability of your education through employer-paid wages. This is a means of financial assistance that is available to all students.
Improves job opportunities after graduation by giving you valuable work experience and contact with potential future employers.
Puts into practice valuable job-search skills such as career assessment, resume writing and interviewing techniques.
"As a Chemical Engineering major, there are so many different industries to enter after graduation. Doing a Co-op with Pepsi was a great way for me to explore one of those options while discovering what I would like to specialize in. My Co-op has also allowed me to develop my professional and technical skills with experience I would not have received from just eight semesters of college. I feel so much more prepared and confident about becoming an engineer in the “real world,” not to mention I have increased my chances of being hired in a tough job market."
~ Hayley Moynihan BS Chemical Engineering, Class of 2010, PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
Co-op Questions?Call us at (518) 276-6234, M-F, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. (EST)
