Cooperative Education

In Turkey, implemented only in TOBB ETÜ, 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.

*At TOBB ETÜ, there are 8 education terms and three cooperative education terms. 

• 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.