Spot on. The Diffrence a college degree can make when you are looking for your initial job is enormous. if you do engineering from a Top rated college in India

Spot on. The Diffrence a college degree can make when you are looking for your initial job is enormous. if you do engineering from a Top rated college in India (IIT), the starting salary(Annual) would be 20,000 USD if you do engineering from a Medium Rated college in India ,the starting salary(Annual) would be 10,000 USD if you do engineering from a Low Rated college in India , the starting salary(Annual) would be 5,000 USD all these cases, only if you have scored more than 65 or 70 % in the course. If you haven't, then majority of the big companies doesn't even consider your resume. If you are really good, but with no degree, most of the companies won't take you in. The ones which do, would take you in as an intern with pay as low as 1000 USD/Annum. (Sometimes with no pay). I have a cousin who is immensley talented on the networking side, but he has no engineering degree. it took him nearly 7 years to reach the initial pay of a person with an engineering degree.