Depends on who you're talking to. For some people, college is huge -- those also tend to be the people for whom Stanford, MIT, or Harvard counts more than ten d

Depends on who you're talking to. For some people, college is huge -- those also tend to be the people for whom Stanford, MIT, or Harvard counts more than ten degrees from a state school. For others what you've done will count for more. Some degree is almost always preferable to no degree though. In some cases it need not be in the field you're working in.