>If you want to be a life sciences researcher then you need all the expensive equipment that only institutions can afford Agreed. The same goes for most engin

>If you want to be a life sciences researcher then you need all the expensive equipment that only institutions can afford Agreed. The same goes for most engineering fields too. Software development is one of the few high-tech fields where one can reasonably attempt to get an education through online courses, but it's becoming so commoditized that the bottom is going to drop out and drop out hard, eventually.