Benefits

It is increasingly clear that students having career-related work experience prior to graduation have a distinct advantage when entering the job market. This is found from talking with companies who recruit at the Texas A&M Career Center and from national reports and surveys. In addition to having a distinct recruiting advantage at graduation, co-op offers students other distinct benefits, such as the following:

• Get a wonderful opportunity to confirm your choice of major.
• Gain professional work experience prior to graduation and thereby enhance your marketability.
• Increase your understanding of classroom theory.
• Earn academic credit.
• Retain your full-time student status while working.
• Earn money to help pay college expenses.
• Gain useful employment contacts.
• Develop confidence and professional skills.

Cooperative Education is a typically multiple work term program (not summers only). These terms may be alternating, or back-to-back (spring-summer, or summer-fall, or single work term). Students are not encouraged to co-op during their last term at Texas A&M.