Career Services and Placement

CO-OP AND INTERNSHIP DEFINED

The Cooperative Professional Practice Program (Co-op) offers a unique opportunity for students to integrate classroom learning with career-related work experience in both the public and private sector. Although most are paid positions, the primary value of a co-op or internship experience is the opportunity to clarify career goals, gain practical experience, and establish contacts with professional colleagues.

The co-op program offers two distinctly different patterns of study and work: alternate and parallel. The alternate pattern requires students to alternate semesters of full-time work with semesters of full-time study. The parallel pattern offers part-time work experience over an extended period of time while the student maintains a minimum academic load.

Internships are of shorter duration than a co-op assignment and normally are completed near the end of a student's college tenure. Since each program option has benefits to different students, programs are individually tailored to meet student and employer needs.

The USI Career Services & Placement Office provides job referrals as a means of assisting students in earning additional money or gaining career-related experience. Career Services accepts job vacancy information as the employers communicate it. Therefore, it is student's responsibility to use reasonable caution in accepting employment with any of these employers.

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