Depends on the school, for sure. My CS education included a course on Computer Architecture, for which the final project was to implement your unique architectu

Depends on the school, for sure. My CS education included a course on Computer Architecture, for which the final project was to implement your unique architecture on an FPGA and demonstrate it running a (simple) algorithm. I liked that course so much, I went back for Computer Architecture II and learned about pipelining, hazards, etc.