Technology is changing faster than Universities and Colleges can keep up with. Plus the IT industry is being shipped over seas where the best school in India, for example, only costs $600/yr and the equivalent in the U.S. is a 100K. Go figure why MS invested 5 billion to develop the IT industry in India. If your lucky or rich enough to find a professor that actually teaches you something, like a mentor, that's valuable asset. For the rest of us who got our pockets picked by Universities or Colleges that are there to just process people and could care less if we learn anything, we had to figure it out for ourselves. Besides MIT's entire curricula is online, now. Do we really need the whip of professor to motivate us to learn? College is changing, and the ivory tower institutions, with all their stuffed shirts, are going to be obsolete as fast as the printed newspaper industry.