Co-op Benefits
Why partner with ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï and our Co-op students?
- Co-op programs provide opportunities to increase staff size to accomplish short term goals and projects in a cost effective method.
- Participation allows employers a chance to early identify students to help diversify your workforce.
- Positive experiences can lead to full-time hires that require less training and assume immediate responsibility, creating a pipeline of talent.
- The Co-op program is available to all 280 majors, and 22, 000 undergraduates at KSU in any semester.
- Co-op students are excited to start employment and be challenged to apply classroom theory to real-world problems.
- KSU co-op students bring fresh ideas and new skill sets that they are eager to use.
- ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï ranks again in 2015 as one of the Best National Universities by the U.S. News & World Report.
- Students working toward an undergraduate degree at KSU possess diverse, highly-marketable skills and knowledge.
Benefits for Students
- Gain practical experience in your chosen field.
- Develop a professional network, contacts met will benefit in your career search.
- Integrate academic theory with real-world learning.
- Acquire significant work experience to list on resumes and increase the value of their degrees.
- Earn Money! Students earn a source of income to assist with tuition and living costs while in college.
- Access professional development resources – including KSU resources (Resume, interviewing, etc.) and at co-op employer.
- Explore career and academic interests.
- Co-op students experience greater satisfaction and advance more quickly in careers.
- Improve opportunities for jobs after graduation.
- Tends to improve students' grades because they are better able to see the relevancy of course work to real-world situations.
- Income earned during Co-op is not included on FAFSA.
- Nationally, 60% of co-op students are offered a fulltime position by their co-op employer.
- 95% of students participating in a co-op experience have a job upon graduation.