Cooperative Education / Internship Program

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Smith Career Center (0128)
Corner of Washington Street & West Campus Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-6241
www.career.vt.edu

Career Services is for all students in all majors: freshman through graduate level
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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CEIP: about the program:

•	Mission
•	Goals & benefits
•	What's a co-op & what's an internship?
•	Which is better?
•	Requirements & eligibility
•	Learning objectives
•	Work / school schedule
•	Student enrollment by major
•	Employers by major
•	Salary data FIRST term
•	Calendar for work terms and deadlines

For students who want to join the program:

•	FAQs
•	Orientation required
•	Advisors for majors
•	How students found jobs
•	Steps to participation
•	Where to find jobs
•	Responding to offers ETHICAL issues CEIP eligibility
•	Housing resources

For students in the program:

•	FAQs
•	Fees
•	Forms
•	What to do and when
•	KTE Co-op Honor Society
•	Awards
•	C.T. Tate Award
•	Contacts for questions

For employers:

•	Developing your program
•	Recruiting
•	Extending offers
•	Evaluation
•	Contacts for employers

Events:

•	Required CEIP Orientation sessions
•	February: Connection Co-op & Internship Job Fair
•	Recognition receptions

Undergraduate Cooperative Education & Internship Program = CEIP

Spring 2013 student newsletter (PDF; 1.22 MB)

Mission of the Program

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The Career Services Cooperative Education & Internship Program is an undergraduate academic program to incorporate real world work experience and learning into the student's college academic experience.

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The program is a partnership among the undergraduate student, the employer and Virginia Tech - represented by Career Services and the academic departments. Each partner has responsibility to be honest and ethical. Each student represents not only him or herself, but also her/his academic department and the university. Conduct and performance should be of the highest standards.

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Co-ops and internships give students educationally-related work and learning experience that integrates theory learned in the classroom with practical application and skill development on the job, and contributes to the development of personal and professional maturity and ethics.

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Co-ops and internships give employers the opportunity to assist in the student's development, supplement their workforce with emerging talent, and enhance their long-range recruiting efforts by evaluating students' potential for employment at graduation.

Please note:
All students are welcome to use our job search services and resources.

After you secure a position, undergraduate students only are eligible to enroll in Career Services' Co-op & Internship Program. See requirements & eligibility.

Graduate Students who wish to register with the university during a work assignment must follow the requirements of the Graduate Cooperative Education Program.