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How One College's Students Get a Jump on Their Careers

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UNITED STATES - AUGUST 02: Students walk by Shillman's Hall on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, August 2, 2006. (Photo by Ruby Arguilla-Tull/Bloomberg via Getty Images) - Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images
UNITED STATES - AUGUST 02: Students walk by Shillman's Hall on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, Wednesday, August 2, 2006. (Photo by Ruby Arguilla-Tull/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tied for number 306 on Money's list of Best Colleges of 2016 is Northeastern University, an international research hub located in the heart of Boston. A distinctive feature of the Northeastern undergraduate education is the school's cooperative education program, in which students intersperse classroom learning with six-month periods of full-time employment with a range of different organizations: Fortune 500 companies, global non-governmental organizations, startups, research institutions, healthcare organizations, or government agencies..

About 90% of undergraduates complete at least one co-op education internship during their college years, and 72% participate in two or more. According to Northeastern, half of graduates get at least one job offer from an organization at which they worked for their co-op.

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