<p>mathmomvt, I just sent you a pm but wanted to note that enrolled students can access lists of co-op employers from their student portal, under the Experiential Learning/Co-op tab. You can pull up a map showing locations and a list of employers for students who did co-ops in 2009 by college (unfortunately, not by major) and by location (state, country)</p>
<p>eireann-- how can one get paid on a co-op via work-study?Financial aid, I’ve been told, only applies when a student is taking classes, not on co-op.</p>
<p>I’m an International Affairs major and there’s a good chance I’m going to get an unpaid co-op. As of tonight, I can finally browse through co-ops and some of them say like “$12.00 per hour” but then when you click on them, they say that you must be work-study eligible. These jobs that you can use work-study for are mostly nonprofits.</p>
<p>upstatemom, I don’t know the details because I don’t have work-study, except for what blinkangel said, and my being told by my co-op adviser that certain jobs were work-study only. I know that people get paid from work-study funds for working a co-op full-time, but that’s it; I don’t know how it ties in to the overall financial aid package.</p>
<p>Yeah blink is right. It’s not like you go through the work-study office, it just says on the co-op description that this job has to be work-study. It’s got to do with funding they get from the government.</p>
<p>This is rather disturbing that the communications major essentially is getting 6 month internships. Finding out that the coops that will come this way are not more than internships gives pause to say the least. Northeastern is really a great school but if communications doesn’t really advance the students with coop in a more substantial manner, they might as well go to BU that has a serious communications department or Syracuse for that matter, do “internships” in the summer, and graduate in 4 years. If this is the case, it would perhaps make sense for communication majors to transfer before coop starts going into their junior year so they make better use of their time and not count on the money.</p>
<p>Not every single communications job is unpaid, same with music or art or journalism. But compared to say an engineering major, where I doubt there is more than 1 job every cycle that’s unpaid, there are a lot more unpaid ones for communications. But a friend of mine just graduated as a comm major and all of her three internships were paid. She also loved the comm department, and got into a PhD program at USC.</p>
<p>And for most people, co-op starts their second year. You either start spring of your second year or the summer after (in which case you are applying to jobs in the spring).</p>