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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by austenallred on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:42AM (#22045093)
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.

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by diffeomorphism on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:10AM (#22045380)
> 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).

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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by gowld on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:43AM (#22045791)
Or 1 year at college and then drop out having learned as much as Lambda teaches you.
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Re:US colleges struggling with low enrollment are closing at... by austenallred on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:45AM (#22045809)
If you can do that, sure!
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