Employer Stories
Northeastern has fostered long-lasting and solid partnerships with employers from across all industry sectors for 100 years. We are proud to be celebrating the centennial of cooperative education with our employers and students, who have been a defining characteristic of the Northeastern co-op experience.
Since the founding of our flagship program in 1909, our co-op partners have helped Northeastern grow from a commuter institution serving the local community, to a globally renowned research university known for combining rigorous academics with unique experiential learning opportunities.
Our co-op program today is among the largest and most innovative in the world, involving nearly 6,000 students annually.
Most importantly, our employer-partners have long recognized the value of co-op as an integral way to meet their human resource needs and cultivate their future workforce through the utilization of motivated, knowledgeable, and creative Northeastern co-op students.
Northeastern Fun Fact:
In 1909, Northeastern started with four co-op employers in Boston, Massachusetts—the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Boston Consolidated Gas Company, the Boston Elevated Railroad, and the Boston and Maine Railroad. Today we have nearly 2,200 employers on six continents, and those original four employers are still with us (known today as Amtrak, NSTAR, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, and the Boston and Maine Corporation).
