Getting College Students Into Coworking Spaces

By KIMBERLEY HAAS As the future of traditional office spaces remains unclear, the coworking industry is seeing growth, and college students could boost this market while benefiting from the opportunity to work alongside established professionals and entrepreneurs. According to a CoworkingCafe market study released last week, 80% of the top 100 universities in the country have at least one coworking space close to campus. Analysts found a total of 926 coworking spaces within two miles of the schools they looked at. New York University has 220 coworking spaces around its campus, George Washington University in Washington, DC, has 74, and the University of Illinois at Chicago rounds out the top three with 66 coworking spaces within two miles. The median…