> Its massively expensive @ $30k for 9 months. A year at a reasonably good California State University is <$8000 (http://www.sjsu.edu/faso/docs/1920_COA_ugrd.pdf), or <$32k for 4 years

The time is a cost, not a benefit. If you're choosing between spending $30k and nine months to get an education, or $32k and four years, the first one is obviously and vastly superior to the second.

You may be thinking that the education you get at the CSU is better than what you get at Lambda School, but "higher price, better product" is the opposite of the argument you actually made.

That relies on the faulty assumption that you will learn just as much in 9 months as in four years. If that were true, saving time would be great. It isn't.

>> You may be thinking that the education you get at the CSU is better than what you get at Lambda School, but "higher price, better product" is the opposite of the argument you actually made.

Saving time may be great anyway. You have a high-cost product and an ultra-high-cost product. The fact that one of them is more valuable isn't enough to decide which one is a better purchase.

Well apples to apples would be one year studying CS at Lambda School then three years on the job vs four years of university.

Financially you’re wildly better off attending Lambda School, and I think you’d be hard-pressed to make an argument that the four years of university provide a vastly superior education to a year of Lambda School and three years working as a software engineer.

> Well apples to apples would be

I don't think so. This is again making the big assumption that you get the same outcome and the same jobs coming out of Lambda School. Might be, might not be, but so far you just claimed grandiose properties without any argument behind them (and changing from comment to comment).

Or 1 year at college and then drop out having learned as much as Lambda teaches you.

If you can do that, sure!

The payoff of 1 year at a reasonably good California State university is $0. You have to attend for 4 years and spend $32k in order to get a degree / payoff. Lambda school is saving you $2k and 3 years of time. (and btw I have no affiliation to lambda school)

Some college produces better outcomes than no college. I bet most people here that have "no degree" do have "some college" under their belt.

A year of college is enough to get an internship, and an internship is enough to get a job in many cases.

If you're enough of a go-getter to turn 1 year of first year gen-eds into a high paying job you probably don't need school.