Probably true. As others have pointed out, the best way to learn this stuff is to do it, hopefully with a mentor to speed you along. If you are going to learn t

Probably true. As others have pointed out, the best way to learn this stuff is to do it, hopefully with a mentor to speed you along. If you are going to learn that way, you might as well earn a paycheck at a company rather than paying tuition to a University. If you were setting up a Software Engineering degree, one good route might be to partner with some local company. They get cheap work, and the students get real world experience and access to mentors (senior people at the company) to rapidly improve their abilities. Courses would probably center around languages and classes of tools (Introduction to Source Control Management, Introduction to Automated Testing), and, like Architecture, lots and lots of studio time.