Students from the Purdue University landscape architecture program undergo a year-long managed cooperative internship between their junior and senior years of enrollment. During this paid internship students experience the realities of a professional design office outside of the protection of the academic classroom. Through surveys of faculty members and students, some areas showed significant differences in student perceptions of abilities compared with what faculty members thought they had taught. The significant areas are those that the professionally accredited Landscape Architecture Body of Knowledge describes as not being vital until a practitioner is ready for licensure, suggesting that in a managed cooperative internship some students have with more advanced knowledge compared to students without such assistance.