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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a student at Northeastern. Yes, the co-ops are awesome. He’s in engineering and will be doing a six month co-op with a big pharmaceutical company. Pay $25/hr, full/time with benefits. They do real work, not getting coffee for co-workers. About 50+ percent get a full time job offer from a previous co-op employer. My kid wants to 3 co-ops before graduating, but many do 2.

You don’t tuition during co-ops, and only pay housing if you’re staying to work near campus. [/quote]

OP here.  Thanks, this is helpful.  Do you know if the co-ops at NU are more worthwhile or better for kids with a defined career path like engineering vs. something less clear like psychology or liberal arts?  Also, is it hard to maintain friendships and a sense of community with students going on co-op at different times and places?[/quote]

Actually Northeastern’s Explore program is highly regarded- basically kids who come in undeclared. They get special advisors and try out classes in every college.

Co-op positions are like the real-life workforce in that the engineers/tech/CS people get the highest salaries and high profile co-ops at Apple and Google. But there are a wide variety of careers that students try out - like working at the assistant DA’s office, university research labs, cybersecurity firms, consultant firms, hospitals, etc…

For my kid, it isn’t that hard to maintain friendships - many friends co-op in the same cities, and Northeastern has robust student organizations like other colleges - Greek life, music ensembles, acapella groups, etc…
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