[coryalthoff]

I recently wrote an essay about this. https://selftaught.blog/the-end-of-college/

In it, I talked about how when schools embrace remote learning people will start questioning why they should pay tens of thousands of dollars for a professor teaching them online when they could just take a Udemy class, so it is interesting you said that.

Are you majoring in computer science?

Yes, many companies use degrees to quickly filter applicants. But tons of companies don't.

In my experience, once I got my first job as a software engineer without a CS degree, no one asked about it again later.

You could also consider going to an online programming boot camp like App Academy. It would be much less expensive and they have a great track record of getting their student's jobs.