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Just the (Co-op) Facts
Founding
In 1906, the practice of
proposed by Dean of Engineering
has its worldwide founding at the University of Cincinnati. On
Sept. 14, 1906
, 27 engineering students begin alternating school and work as a means to a better education.
Early growth
In 1909, Northeastern University in Boston is the first to follow UC in adopting what becomes known as the Cincinnati Plan. In the following years, New York Citys high schools, New York University, Harvard University and many others follow suit until today, co-op is practiced by more than 1,500 universities in 43 countries. About 500 of all colleges and universities in the U.S. now have co-op.
Firsts, bests and boasts
Heres the low down on how highly co-op at UC is ranked: When U.S. News & World Reports celebrated campus rankings last listed the nations best co-op programs, UC made the grade among Americas top-ten elite.
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You might say that we pull rank. After all, UCs undergraduate
interior design and architecture
are respectively ranked as the nations number one and number two programs by employers in the field. Why? The employers as well as
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
faculty and students themselves credit co-op as the pivotal booster in those rankings, allowing Midwest UC to beat out privileged eastern rivals like Cornell, the Rhode Island School of Design and Carnegie Mellon as well as private university powerhouses like Notre Dame.
In fact, UC houses
- The nations largest mandatory co-op program, and the largest co-op program at any public institution in the U.S.
- The globes third-largest co-op program.
- The largest combined design, architecture and art co-op program in the world
Other co-op firsts
- 1906 Co-op has its worldwide founding at UC.
- 1915 UC is the first to experiment with the placement of nursing students on co-ops, but a formal, ongoing plan for nurses has to wait till the next century.
- 1919 UC founds the first co-op program in business.
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- 1920 UC is the first to admit women into co-op.
- 1920 Cincinnatis Ohio Mechanics Institute (led by a former UC engineering faculty) establishes the first two-year program in co-op, power laundry. The OMI later becomes part of UC.
- 2003 UCs founds the first formal co-op program at a College of Nursing in the state.
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