UIUC is a major industry and scientific computing research hub. From personal experience, my son (Engineering Physics) got an internship after his freshman year coding for robotics at John Deere. Here are some of those affiliated with the Research Park, but there are others like Nvidia and Wolfram as well.
http://researchpark.illinois.edu/about
https://engineering.illinois.edu/research/undergraduate/research_internships.html
https://cs.illinois.edu/corporate
When you said UW in the first post I thought you meant Wisconsin;-) It’s too bad the admit to CE/CS isn’t guaranteed, as otherwise I’d say it’s a no-brainer with resident tuition.