Welcome to your information source for Cooperative Education, or “co-op”. It’s a college program that integrates your classroom studies with paid, productive, real-life work experience in a related field.

How the Co-op program benefits YOU:

• Enhances your classroom learning by integrating academic curriculum and real-world work experience.
• Confirms or redirects your career decision-making through on-the-job experience in a chosen field.
• Enhances the affordability of your education through employer-paid wages. This is a means of financial assistance that is available to all students.
• Improves job opportunities after graduation by giving you valuable work experience and contact with potential future employers.
• Puts into practice valuable job-search skills such as career assessment, resume writing and interviewing techniques.

How Co-op Works & How to Get Started

The Co-op Advantage:

"As a Chemical Engineering major, there are so many different industries to enter after graduation.  Doing a Co-op with Pepsi was a great way for me to explore one of those options while discovering what I would like to specialize in.  My Co-op has also allowed me to develop my professional and technical skills with experience I would not have received from just eight semesters of college.  I feel so much more prepared and confident about becoming an engineer in the “real world,” not to mention I have increased my chances of being hired in a tough job market."
~ Hayley Moynihan
BS Chemical Engineering, Class of 2010, PepsiCo, Purchase, NY

Co-op Contacts:

Diana Leis Delker, Ed.D.
Director, Cooperative Education

Judy Picarillo
Supervisor, Customer Service

Call the Co-op Staff at (518) 276-6234, M-F, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. (EST)