> Also, a university has computer resources that no student can match. this probably only matters for graduate+ level studies and perhaps a couple upper level

> Also, a university has computer resources that no student can match. this probably only matters for graduate+ level studies and perhaps a couple upper level electives for undergrads. in my whole time as an undergrad (at a well-regarded regional school), i only used our HPC cluster once for a trivial parallelism project in my algorithms class. the vast majority of my school projects required the compute resources of a 10 year old laptop, anyway. having paid experts on staff that are required to hold office hours and field questions is a much more compelling advantage of university imo.