> The reason college is a requirement is because everyone who is in charge went to one, and believes it is necessary. Not exactly. I can think of a certain exe

> The reason college is a requirement is because everyone who is in charge went to one, and believes it is necessary. Not exactly. I can think of a certain executive working on products at the the Intersection of Liberal Arts and Technology that never graduated from college. But let me share with you the dirty secret of recruiting in America: the college degree is used as a substitute for the IQ test, which is widely believed to be illegal. Which is why college dropout income looks much closer to college grads than those who graduated high school but never went to college -- passing the entrance exams demonstrates something about a person all on its own, regardless of classes taken after. Not that I think something like a CS degree is worthless; there's a ton of useful stuff in there I use on a daily basis. The case is less clear for say, all of business school.