There are a number of schools that have mainframe oriented CS programs if you're really serious and have the time/money. Columbus State University has one crea

There are a number of schools that have mainframe oriented CS programs if you're really serious and have the time/money. Columbus State University has one created in partnership with IBM[1]. They apparently have a pretty extensive corporate outreach program and the folks I've talked to who were in the program were set up post graduation job-wise. That said, I will N-th the caveat that knowing COBOL isn't the job/hard part; it's knowing the extensive ecosystem that COBOL orchestrates. [1] https://catalog.columbusstate.edu/academic-units/business/computer-science/computer-science-bs-enterprise-computing-track/ https://catalog.columbusstate.edu/academic-units/business/co...