Cooperative Education

What is Cooperative Education?

Cooperative education is a unique approach to higher education that enables students to gain one-year work experience prior to their graduation grounded on university-business world cooperation.

The “Cooperative Education Model” is a structured educational strategy reinforcing professional development at actual businesses and involvement in an area associated with the future professions of the students, all the while they receive education.
Undergraduate students of TOBB ETÜ work at actual jobs for 3 times, for 3.5 months at a time, from the third year of their education on, graduating with a work experience of approximately 1 year in total. Getting the opportunity to put into practice the current knowledge gained at the classes, the students also serve as a conduit to provide some input from the professional domain to the university, helping keep the programs current.
In cooperative education, the students get to develop themselves, the school, and the enterprise they are associated to, as an instrument of cooperation between the university and the industry.

At TOBB ETÜ, our undergraduate students work 3 times in their workplaces for 3.5 months from the third year of their education and graduate with a total work experience of about 1 year.

Cooperative Education Model is a programmatic education strategy that reinforces students' professional development by working in a field related to their profession during their education.

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Summer

1 year

1st semestre

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3rd term

2 years

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5th termr

Cooperative Education (1)

TOBB ETÜ has 8 academic terms and 3 joint education terms.

Academics