Experience is everything.
Step into your dream career faster with co-op. Over the course of four co-op terms, you’ll connect your classroom learning with full-time paid work. Apply your theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills to the professional world and graduate with a resume and industry connections you need to launch your future.
Unlimited Potential
As a GBDA grad, you’ll gain highly relevant experience with the latest technologies and business practices – and have count countless career opportunities at your fingertips. Career paths include:
- User experience (UX) design and research
- Interaction design
- Digital marketing
- Project management
- Product development
- Business technology analysis
- Entrepreneurship
Work for companies like:
- Rogers
- LCBO
- Scotiabank
- Thomson Reuters
- IBM
- Startups
"For me, living a life that matches my core values and doing what I love is important."
If you're like Seul Lee, you carve your own path. After graduation, she chose to work as an independent UX designer. The flexibility has allowed her to work in diverse industries and focus on Design.local, a not-for-profit social innovation platform for designers that she co-founded.
Co-op and Study Sequence
| YEAR | TERM | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fall | Study - main campus |
| Winter | Study - main campus | |
| Spring | Off | |
| 2 | Fall | Study - Stratford School |
| Winter | Study Stratford School | |
| Spring | Study Stratford School | |
| 3 | Fall | Work |
| Winter | Study - Abroad (option 1)* | |
| Spring | Work | |
| 4 | Fall | Study - Abroad (option 2)* |
| Winter | Work | |
| Spring | Work | |
| 5 | Fall | Study - Stratford School |
*Optional study abroad in one of the two terms
identified above.
Fall term: September to December
Winter term: January to April
Spring term: May to August
This information is reflective of the 2022 academic year, and subject to change.
