Academics and Experience
This unique model of experiential education is specifically designed to expand boundaries by placing you on the front lines of innovation, working alongside today's leaders and tomorrow's trailblazers. Drexel is a place that will position you to make an impact — and enables you to start right away.
A Blueprint for Success
Whether working as an undergraduate or graduate student, you'll begin by building a strong and wide-ranging foundation of knowledge through rigorous and challenging coursework under the guidance of our expert faculty and mentors. Then, you'll have the opportunity to actively use this newfound knowledge within immersive learning experiences while working side-by-side with your professors and other industry professionals. Through this intensive combination of preparation and application, you'll get the chance to see how the concepts you learn in the classroom are actively used in the field; you'll not only learn how things work, you'll see why they work.
Co-op sets Drexel apart from other universities, allowing students to learn alongside experts in their fields and see firsthand how these innovators are shaping the professional world. Each of these transformative experiences uniquely prepares our Dragons to expand the limits of what they can achieve as students, employees, and as individuals.
Placing a Focus on Experience
Experiential education is, as the name suggests, focused on what experience brings to our students and partners. This can take a variety of forms like researching cutting-edge innovations in a lab, discovering the world around us by learning abroad, and participating in Drexel's renowned cooperative education program, also known as co-op.
For over 100 years, Drexel Co-op has positioned our Dragons to learn directly from the experts and visionaries shaping the professional world. Our program partners with over 1,400 employers from around the globe, ranging from Fortune 500 companies and emerging startups to innovative nonprofits and government agencies and provides students with up to three six-month, full-time professional work experiences. Students can explore potential career paths and build a professional network while gaining invaluable experience and building an impressive résumé — all before graduation. And when you return to class, you'll do so possessing enhanced insights and an advanced practical understanding that can't be found in any textbook, allowing you to serve as a knowledgeable resource for your classmates and instructors.
Continuing a Legacy of Learning
Universally regarded as one of the nation's most respected leaders in experiential education, Drexel has a long and storied tradition of preparing students to make an impact in the world around them. By so closely integrating academics with experience, our University presents students with a truly transformative model that allows them to push beyond all expectations. This is a place that continues to shape leaders, thinkers, and achievers…and we can't wait to see what they will accomplish next.
Our diverse faculty, staff, and students are committed to finding new and innovative solutions to 21st-century challenges using advanced research techniques. Learn more about how our unique approach to research is leading to new discoveries that will shape tomorrow.
