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At my school, getting your Master's or Bachelor's degree requires a certain number of weeks (12? I can't remember) of work related to your field of study, which
by henrikschroder 16y ago
At my school, getting your Master's or Bachelor's degree requires a certain number of weeks (12? I can't remember) of work related to your field of study, which means that almost everyone gets a summer job or two in the industry.
However, you can do this at the end of your education, which renders it less useful. Forcing people to take it in the middle of their education would be a lot more useful, but on the other hand it would suck if the job market tanked and a lot of students couldn't continue their studies based on some external cause.
- zacharycohn 16y agoI went to school at RIT where almost all students were required to have several co-ops (paid internships, basically). For a Computer Science, you had to have 4, which means an entire year of work. (The CS program was a 5 year program: 4 years of school interspersed with a year of work). Many people would get coops at Apple, IBM, Google, Microsoft, etc.