Cooperative Education
For more information about going out on co-op during Summer II/Fall 2012, please click here.
Our co-op program, founded a century ago, is one of the largest and most innovative in the world. Students alternate semesters of academic study with semesters of full-time employment in positions related to their academic or career interests.
Study and research in the sciences increasingly crosses two or more disciplines, and our co-op opportunities within these areas are correspondingly interdisciplinary. In the biological sciences, you’ll find co-op positions with world-renowned health care institutions as well as neigh
borhood health clinics, and with multinational biotechnology companies as well as nonprofit research labs.
Because physics and chemistry are important to the development of biotechnology and biomedicine, students in these sciences frequently obtain co-op positions in these areas. Physics students often work in settings devoted to research and applic
ations of optics, lasers, imaging, and sound analysis. Chemistry students work in biomedical and pharmaceutical firms, research labs, and with industrial and consumer product firms.
Environmental science is also rich in co-op opportunities in the Boston region. As a student interested in this area of science, you can pursue co-op positions in geotechnology and environmental geology, marine environmental research, water resource management, and environmental engineering.
Co-op Expo: Check out some of the presenters at this year's expo on Oct. 6, 2011
