U of Pittsburgh is looking really interesting. It looks like they recently started a co-op department just for the engineering school.
My son is a senior at Northeastern (NU). He has lived in a six-bedroom apartment with 5 friends for the past two years. Some of them will be on co-op and some in classes, but they have had no problems with maintaining their friendships. One of his friends did a software engineering co-op in San Francisco. Another friend sublet his room and my son and 3 friends went to San Fran to visit him. They all took a spring break trip together to Barcelona and Lyon. My son pays for his trips with his co-op earnings. Only positive experiences with the co-op program. As for school spirit, NU has won the Beanpot hockey championship the past few years and NU has the most fans at TD Garden.
If you have questions, feel free to reach out.
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Thank you. I am going to message you because I have a specific question.
Also, awesome picture!
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Dartmouth has the D-plan + lots of study abroad, which amounts to something similar in terms of kids coming and going (though most definitely isn’t a co-op program). Its generally considered to have one of the stronger communities and strength of alum bond out there.
I know TONs of northeastern alums from the 2005-2020 era and all adored school and all have lifelong friends.
I think worry about all of this sort of dynamics is very overstated, personally.
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I would ask some hard questions about HOW students get co-ops and what happens if they don’t.
At my daughter’s school, co-ops were still a competitive process like any job and there were always a few who didn’t get them (unclear whether it was lack of effort or something else). The school had a class they could take instead, but I don’t know how often they could do that. For that school, anyway, there was a not a big bucket of co-ops that were handed out. Students had to find their own, although there were the typical job fairs on campus.
Her major was not a co-op major, but I heard a lot of stories like that in the parents FB group.
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