Co-op student skills

UVic co-op students have the skills to make a difference in every industry and field.

Students study more than 250 academic programs and bring cutting-edge knowledge to the workplace. Learn how students can help your team, then target your job posting to students from specific academic areas. 

Curious about where students have worked? See some of our students' co-op experiences.

Explore skills by program area

Choose a program to see the competencies, or skills, that undergraduate students in that area will bring to your workplace. 

Contact us if you're not sure what program to hire from, or to learn about graduate students' skills.

Business

• Commerce

Education

• Curriculum and Instruction
• Indigenous Language Revitalization

Engineering and Computer Science

• Biomedical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Software Engineering

Health

• Health Information Science
• Kinesiology
• Physical and Health Education
• Recreation and Health Education
• Social Work

Fine Arts

• Art History and Visual Studies
• Music
• Theatre
• Visual Arts
• Writing

Humanities

• English
• French
• Gender Studies
• Germanic and Slavic Studies
• Greek and Roman Studies
• Hispanic and Italian Studies
• History
• Indigenous Studies
• Latin American Studies
• Linguistics
• Medieval Studies
• Pacific and Asian Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies

Interdisciplinary studies

• Applied Ethics
• Human Dimensions of Climate Change
• Social Justice Studies

Law

• Law

Science

• Biochemistry and Microbiology
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Earth and Ocean Sciences
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Physics and Astronomy

Social Sciences

• Anthropology
• Economics
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Political Science
• Public Administration
• Psychology
• Restoration of Natural Systems (diploma)
• Sociology