My current employer had a college student design a product using the student version of Solid Edge. It marks every file in a way that causes it to print the words Student Version across all drawings. If you use any of those parts, assemblies or drawings in a regular version they get marked the same way. We got SW to convert them all by insisting that we couldn't afford a seat of SW and redo all the drawings, unless we got a the files cleaned. They finally relented and we bought a seat.
So as a law abiding college student already bent over and taking the big shaft with tuition they aren't going to help you pay your way by working as you learn. However if you live in India we are good with you actually doing work for US companies using cracked software and charging $2 an hour for the work.
The college students files were somewhat problematic. They had taught him lots of tricks using SW like local patterns and how to model threads etc. What he didn't learn was that you should model just like you actually build things. And simplification of parts is really important unless you need the detail to make that part. So his models were huge, he hadn't built a library of purchased parts, his naming conventions were an abomination, and he hadn't worked at putting useful information in the part files, like the actual part number. So in the end I almost needed to start from scratch anyway.
I have a young mechanical engineering student working with me now. He's eager to learn, stuck around tonight so I could teach him some more welding techniques. I told him I'm going to need a really large hypodemic nurdle to teach him everything he needs to know to actually be a competent mechanical engineer!
