I finished the course in 1997 and was fortunate enough to be interviewed at 194 hours total. At the time things were good and all on my course (integrated) got jobs within 3 months, I don't think it would be quite the same now and so if I were thinking about starting now on an integrated course I would probably delay into the summer and then hope that by the time I'd finished things had picked up i.e summer 2003.
Yes it is expensive and I'm still paying it off !!