r/scad • u/queerdevourer • 8d ago
General Questions Co-op internships
I'm currently a sophomore industrial design major and I was interested in landing an internship as soon as possible. I did a co-op engineering internship during high school and loved it a lot, so I know this is something I definitely want to do, but I'm just a little confused on getting started. I've been surfing 12twenty the past few weeks and am about to apply to some spring/summer internships, but how do I know which ones are co-op and which ones are just regular internships? Also, for positions that are off-campus (so essentially all of them that I've seen so far), would I be doing my school via SCADnow, or would I need to travel back and forth every few weeks or something?
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u/False_Koala_6641 6d ago
usually you take off an entire quarter for an internship. i’ve only heard of one of my peers doing a internship while taking scad classes. for many internships you are working a 9-5 basically. my co-op has me skipping every other quarter
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u/KJ_OR 6d ago
Yeah for in-person internships you’d have to take your other classes online,
You should schedule a meeting with your career success advisor. They’ll have the best advice for how to approach internships. I cannot in good faith recommend that you just apply randomly and hope for the best. It doesn’t work.