I 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

I 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.