From ‘Follow your passion’ to ‘Get a job!’: Colleges doing more to emphasize career prep But a few colleges have benefited from the shift in values. “Colleges like Northeastern and Drexel are really coming up in the world because they offer co-op programs,” where students spend several semesters in full-time jobs related to their studies, usually with pay, Rubenstone noted. In the last six years, Northeastern University’s ranking on U.S. […]