NJIT's Cooperative Education Program provides students with an experiential and applications approach to education. Students gain integrated work experience related to their academic studies.

Each year more than 350 students and 175 employing organizations engage in this mutually beneficial partnership. To learn more and to apply, go to the Career Development Services Co-Op web pages.

Program Features

• An established, university wide, academically integrated program involving students and faculty advisors from every major and degree program
• A full time Career Development Services staff dedicated to assisting students and employers in meeting their objectives
• A centralized database of available student and employer work assignments
• Review and referral of student resumes to prospective employers
• Interview scheduling and coordination
• Work experience performance management

Schedules

Co-op work schedules are available during the academic year and the summer. Co-op students from engineering and engineering technology majors work on full time schedules of up to 1 year. Students from all other majors are eligible to participate in either full or part time schedules of up to 1 year.

Co-op Work Cycles:

• January through May
• May through August
• June, July, or August Through December

An on-campus recruitment schedule is also available.

Participation Requirements

Undergraduate Students

Submission of the Cooperative Education Program Application Form. Completion of the sophomore year, matriculation and a minimum grade point average of 2.2 for semester work experience and 2.8 for summer work experiences. United States work authorization eligibility. Enrollment in the co-op work experience course is required.

Graduate Students

Submission of the Cooperative Education Program Application Form. Completion of 6 credits within a matriculated degree program with a minimum grade point average of 3.0. United States work authorization eligibility. Enrollment in the co-op work experience course is required.

Employers

• Submission of a written job description
• Designation of an immediate supervisor
• Provision of a safe work environment
• Providing compensation to each student
• Providing a work environment conducive to learning
• Providing feedback on students performance

Recent Co-op Employers

ADP AlliedSignal AT&T BASF Bellcore Bristol-Myers Squibb Chubb Colgate Palmolive Community Energy Alternative DataScope Dendrite Dialogic Dow Jones Ewing, Cole, Cherry, Brott Exxon Ford Frigidaire GEC-Marconi General Devices Hercules Hewlett Packard Hillier Group HK Metalcraft Hoffmann-La Roche

IBM JCP&L Johnson & Johnson Lederle Labs Lucent Technologies Matsushita Membrex MCI Merck Mobil Nabisco  Newark Bay Co-Generation Panasonic Port Authority NY/NJ PSE&G Schering-Plough  Simon & Schuster Sun Chemical  Union Camp  Union Carbide  UPS US Army US Postal Service Warner-Lambert

Sample Co-op Work Assignments

Computer Science/Engineering:

• Software Development
• Quality Assurance
• Database Development
• Systems Analysis
• Web Development
  

Engineering:

• Occupational Health & Safety Coordination
• Production Scheduling
• Computer Network Assistant
• CAD
• Product Design
• Manufacturing Processes Analysis
• Site Inspection
• Project Management
• Environmental Compliance Coordination

Architecture:

• Model Making
• Drawing
• CAD documentation
• Housing Coordination
• Blueprint Coordination
• Construction Inspection

Management:

• Marketing Assistant
• Forecasting
• MIS Development
• Technical report writing
• LAN Administration

Other:

• Technical Writing
• Nuclear Power Assistant
• Environmental Policy Development
• Site Management Coordinating
• Actuarial Science Trainee