What is the Coop Program?
Celebrating our 87th anniversary in 2006, Marquette’s Engineering Co-op Program is the fifth oldest Co-op program in the United States. Cooperative Education (Co-op) is a program combining academic study and practical work experience—a learning and training partnership between Marquette, employer and student—beneficial to all participants. Co-op provides students with hands-on, career-related work experience and the opportunity to develop professionally as well as academically. Employers draw upon the energy and enthusiasm of highly qualified students to meet their ongoing need for effective employees. And Marquette has contact with the new trends and needs of industry, which can be integrated into course work and curriculum. Engineering Co-op students at Marquette alternate semesters of school attendance with semesters of employment after completion of their sophomore year. Under this plan, students are required to complete a minimum of three alternating work terms with their Co-op em
