<p>Not every single communications job is unpaid, same with music or art or journalism. But compared to say an engineering major, where I doubt there is more than 1 job every cycle that’s unpaid, there are a lot more unpaid ones for communications. But a friend of mine just graduated as a comm major and all of her three internships were paid. She also loved the comm department, and got into a PhD program at USC.</p>
<p>And for most people, co-op starts their second year. You either start spring of your second year or the summer after (in which case you are applying to jobs in the spring).</p>