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June 29, 2026 
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Hi everyone —
This past week, our colleague Troy Closson wrote an article about unpaid internships, which we can’t seem to quit as a country.
It got me thinking about a source of ongoing fascination, as someone who writes often about who pays what for college and what people get out of it: Undergraduate cooperative programs. While they differ from one another somewhat, they usually involve monthslong immersion in a job outside of the classroom.
Northeastern has what is probably the most well-known program in the United States. The University of Cincinnati and Drexel University are two others of note. The so-called work colleges are a kind of co-op first cousin, too.
If you’ve got experience with undergraduate co-op programs — as a participant, family member, university insider or employer, we’d like to hear about it, positive or negative. Did the co-op lead to full-time work? Are the individual roles increasingly hard to obtain, even as colleges tout the programs aggressively? Are you familiar with any new programs we should know about?
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