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Forty-four percent of the 500 college-bound high
school students we surveyed this year indicated
that they had heard of co-op or cooperative education.
Among the interesting subgroup findings:
By region of the country, 54 percent of students from the Northeast and New England,
51 percent of those from the Southwest, 46 percent from the South, and 43 percent
of students from the Midwest had heard of co-op or cooperative education. By
comparison, and the only statistically significant difference by region, only
15 percent of students from the West indicated they had heard of co-op or cooperative
education. The West included the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado,
Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
By SAT and ACT score, a larger proportion of students reporting the highest scores indicated they had heard of cooperative education/co-op. For instance, 57 percent of students with SAT scores of 1270 or higher had heard of co-op compared to 45 percent of those with scores of 1090-1260 and 44 percent of those with scores of 1080 or lower. Similarly, 51 percent of students with ACT scores of 26 or higher indicated they had heard of cooperative education, compared to 37 percent with scores of 22-25 and 41 percent with scores of 21 or lower.
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