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Internships and Cooperative Education
Internships are one-time paid or unpaid work experiences related to your major or sometimes your minor. Co-ops are continuing paid experiences; parallel co-ops work part-time and may study full-time or part-time in consecutive semesters, and alternating co-ops full time work one semester, attend classes full time the next, and so on, until graduation.
If you want credit for your experience, most academic programs require that you are of junior status or higher, with a declared major or minor, and have at least a 2.0 GPA.
The first step is to attend an Internship Orientation within your College. International students are eligible to do internships through Curricular Practical Training. A CPT Workshop is required.
The International Career Advantage Program (ICAP) can help you find an internship outside of the country.
2011 Intern/Co-op Students Report:
Get your career advantage by gaining work experience through a co-op or internship. There is no limit to what you can do or where you can do it!
Jim Johnson, a 1984 civil engineering technology graduate, cites a BCET cooperative education program (co-op) as the spark that jump-started his career in the energy business. Johnson spent two semesters working a co-op at Virginia Natural Gas.
