The value of formal university CS education done well, at both BS and MS levels, is learning skills in a context that integrates those skills into a knowledge framework that transcends any particular technology and hopefully outlasts several trend changes.
While I don't disagree with your main point re the value of a CS degree, this is the same argument verbatim given by every English, History, and Underwater basket weaving professor.
They’ve also got a point. The skills may not be technologically valuable, but they can teach critical thinking and give broader context for life. Philosophy majors tend to do better than average salary wise as well.
That said I also believe many fields have gone bunkers. The whole everybody needs a degree also creates incentives for degree factories.
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While I don't disagree with your main point re the value of a CS degree, this is the same argument verbatim given by every English, History, and Underwater basket weaving professor.
They’ve also got a point. The skills may not be technologically valuable, but they can teach critical thinking and give broader context for life. Philosophy majors tend to do better than average salary wise as well.
That said I also believe many fields have gone bunkers. The whole everybody needs a degree also creates incentives for degree factories.