Intern / industry experience things aren't required for the degree program, but my school's started a sorta partnership with Intel, feeding them new interns. It's been a pretty good program, giving students from my school an amazing opportunity for experience. However, it's on our own time, so I had to take a semester off from school to do it, and that managed to muck up all my financial aid. At least I got that all hammered out though, came withing a few hours of having to pay tuition out of pocket the other day...