Student Employees Give An Edge

Employing students part-time has allowed many college and university in-plants to prosper, helping them achieve Top 50 status in the process

By Erik Cagle

Not all in-plants are created equal. If they were, then we wouldn't have the IPG Top 50.

One look at that list, though, reveals that college and university in-plants have a special advantage: their ability to cull a large number of part-time employees from their student populations. Many of them owe their lofty status on the Top 50 to employing students; frankly, some in-plants would not have cracked the list without them.