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Welcome to the Center for Career Services and Cooperative Education where your present and future employment needs can be met through our wide range of services. We invite you to participate in our visibility programs, employ our students in short-term work experiences through internships or cooperative education, hire our students for after-graduation full-time positions and lots more. Join with us in creating a relationship which benefits us all.

Learn about the University:

Montclair State is New Jersey’s second-largest and fastest-growing university. We offer all the advantages of a large university — a wide range of excellent undergraduate and graduate programs, a diverse faculty and student body — combined with the individual attention of a small college.

MSU provides more than 250 majors, minors and concentrations — including the nation’s only doctorate in pedagogy, the state’s only doctorate in audiology and a unique interdisciplinary doctorate in environmental management — while remaining accessible and affordable.

Our five schools and colleges prepare students to lead productive, rewarding and responsible lives in society and the world. To learn more, click here.

The Center's Mission:

The Center for Career Services & Cooperative Education is dedicated to providing insight and guidance in a supportive environment where students and alumni can engage in personal and career development. As such, the Center, in collaboration with its University, corporate, and community partners, is committed to the development of the whole student in the process of career exploration and lifelong learning.

The Center's Values:

  1. Quality: To strive for excellence in all we do through both personal and professional contributions.
  2. Integrity: Honesty in relationships with each other and with our stakeholders so those constituents all know and trust the department.
  3. Ethical Behavior: Consistent and invariable in all aspects of conducting our business and in all that we do, so that we can earn and always deserve a reputation that is beyond question.
  4. Teamwork: Through open communication that gives everyone a sense of personal involvement and pride in our department's performance.
  5. Job Satisfaction: Fostered by a positive work environment that promotes individual opportunity and self fulfillment, encouraging people to grow to their full potential in skills and responsibilities.
  6. Creativity: By creating an atmosphere that challenges everyone in all parts of the department to seek new solutions and to take intelligent risks.
  7. Adaptability: Recognizing the need, as a department and individuals, to anticipate and respond to change