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Undergraduate Cooperative Education & Internship Program (CEIP)
Salary data: FIRST-work-term salaries 2008
Data from three work terms: spring 2008, summer 2008 and fall 2008.
   (New data published each fall semester.)
Only for students' FIRST work terms
   (pay rates typically increase for subsequent work terms).
Students are usually sophomore or junior academic level at first work term.
Salaries known only for students enrolled in the Undergraduate Cooperative    Education and Internship Program (U.CEIP).
Based on hourly rate (converted from monthly and annual rates).
NOT including other benefits, housing allowances, etc., that some employers
   provide.
For comparison view data from:
2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
         
(* no minimum & maximum if 5 or fewer)
(** no salary data given if 2 or fewer)
 
Majors, by college, with 1 or more students w/ FIRST-work-term in 2008  
Salary
(reported as hourly rate)
College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
No majors w/new placements in 2008        
 
College of Architecture & Urban Studies
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
Architecture
1
**
**
**
 
Pamplin College of Business
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
Accounting & Information Systems 2
**
**
$12.00
Business Information Technology

3

**
**
$15.86
Economics 1
**
**
**
Finance 1
**
**
**
Hospitality & Tourism Mgt.
4
**
**
$13.10
Management 2
**
**
$7.59
 
College of Engineering
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
Aerospace Engineering

 7

$15.00

$18.00

$16.75

Biological Systems Engineering

 0

**

**

**

Chemical Engineering

15

$8.50

$27.50

$18.91

Civil & Environmental Engineering

10

$12.00

$18.00

$14.67

Computer Engineering

12

$13.50

$20.50

$17.19

Computer Science

15

$13.00

$30.00

$20.36

Electrical Engineering

11

$13.50

$23.50

$17.25

Engineering Science & Mechanics

4

**

**

$17.03

Industrial & Systems Engineering

10

$13.00

$20.00

$15.50

Materials Science & Engineering

4

*

*

$17.03

Mechanical Engineering

54

$6.79

$30.62

$16.67

Mining & Minerals Engineering

7

$11.70

$21.50

$16.16

 
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
Communication
2
**
**
$11.22
 
College of Natural Resources
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
No majors w/new placements in 2008
 
 
 
 
 
College of Science
Number
Min.
Max.
Average
No majors w/new placements in 2008        
 
(* no minimum & maximum if 5 or fewer)
(** no salary data given if 2 or fewer)
           
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