2025 NACE Internship & Co-op Report & Dashboard

Smarter Data. Stronger Decisions.

Access the data you need to build a successful internship program—plus key insights and trend analysis to track its impact and evolve your strategy over time.

Based on data provided by 247 organizations nationwide, this report includes:

2025 Internship & Co-op Report Dashboard
2025 Internship & Co-op Report

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Fee: $325 (members); $485 (nonmembers)

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DASHBOARD

Filtered Data & Custom Views

NACE conducted its annual internship & co-op survey October 16, 2024 to January 2, 2025. A total of 208 NACE members and an additional 39 nonmember companies responded. The dashboard provides detailed results based along a variety of parameters, including region, company size, and industry. Responses reflect internship and co-op program results for the 2023-24 academic year.

Zero in on the benchmarks that matter most—by region, company size, and industry—with this interactive data dashboard. Easily assess your program’s strengths, spot opportunities to improve, and make data-driven decisions with confidence.

REPORT

Get the full report: Hiring projections for the 2024-25 academic year and benchmarks from 2023-24

NACE’s 2025 Internship & Co-op Report explores key aspects of employers’ internship and co-op programs and offers both hiring projections for 2024-25 programs as well as key benchmarks based on actual data for 2023-24 programs.

For organizations focused on building the most effective internship/co-op program, the report features key insights—including where interns and co-ops will engage in their experiences this year and who took part in programs last year—and offers current benchmarks for assessing program effectiveness.

The report includes hard data for:

Offer, acceptance, and conversion rates;
One- and five-year retention rates for employees with internship/co-op experience;
Overall hourly wage rates, plus trends in wage rates;
Benefits offered to interns and co-ops; and
Relocation assistance, including average costs.

The report also looks at how students are sourced and recruited, the effectiveness of specific recruiting techniques, and how interns/co-ops spend their time.

March 2025. 8 1/2” x 11”. 36 pages. PDF format.

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