My initial impression is that if you have the motivation to self-teach you have the motivation needed to breeze past anyone going to university. You'll see a hi

My initial impression is that if you have the motivation to self-teach you have the motivation needed to breeze past anyone going to university. You'll see a higher rate of acceptance into the job market vs college grads. On another hand I don't think you'll only be looking at web-devs. Self study is everywhere: machining, mechanics, and other engineering like low level firmware work. No colleges teach "important" skills like "how do I make this 300k line C program compile into a binary under 512k" or "how do I write this program so that it can run on this 50kHz CPU".