Qualification for advanced fields has nothing to do with a degree in those fields. You get qualified by doing projects in those fields. You can do such projec

Qualification for advanced fields has nothing to do with a degree in those fields. You get qualified by doing projects in those fields. You can do such projects while paying some institution to give you a paper certificate ... or you can take an online course to learn stuff ... or you can study books and papers and implement a project yourself and open source it to gain recognition for your work. The industry has some luminaries who do AI/Graphics, etc., without having done much work in those areas in school. See Jon Carmack, one of the greatest programmers alive. See Abrams. See Cooley. etc. etc. It's a fallacy that grad school teaches you to do XYZ. You learn it on your own. It's just a forcing function to put you on a timeline. Everything I know in computer science, outside the intro classes, I learned on my own.