[gerl1ng]

I did my bachelors and masters degree in cooperation with different companys in germany. Over here it is quite normal that companys have open positions for cooperative degrees.

For most it comes down to some evening courses or courses crapted together on a few days so that the other days are available for part time working.

At my university we had it a little different. For Bachelors it was:

- 1. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 2. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 3. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits

- 4. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 5. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits

- 6. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 7. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits (3 mo) + 3 months bachelors degree (most of the time based on the stuff you worked on before)

The Semester breaks we needed to work full time but also needed to take our 30 days of vacation in that time.

So I think we got the best of both worlds. Hands on experience on the work and full time studying on campus.

In the companys I joined since then I'm heavily opting to get some cooperative students. Usually by the time of the 4th semester they are up to speed and help a lot in the 8 months they are there.