You know, I really like this idea. What if in general there were an option for higher education that was more spread out? I'm imagining a system that is more

You know, I really like this idea. What if in general there were an option for higher education that was more spread out? I'm imagining a system that is more based on apprenticeship; where you work and you learn at the same time, and after a certain number of years, you have taken enough classes to be given a degree in some area. I guess the idea would be to have a company that is also an accredited university (with professors who do research and publish papers and stuff). I've decided to call this a companiversity. Lets pretend it is a software companiversity. I guess the idea is that you just hire the best students right out of high-school, and they agree to work for you and you pay them to work on various contracts that the companiversity takes (presumably less than someone with a degree). They also get to take classes at your internal university and earn a degree for free. The overhead that it costs the university to administer classes is paid for by the products that they delivered. I guess the idea is to eliminate the huge amount of debt that college students accrue, return some of the opportunity-cost loss that college students experience by not entering the workforce, and give students that are entering technical professions some semblance of experience to increase their market value once they leave.