[F_J_H]

Agreed, but how much debt should one take on to learn these other skills? (Scott Galloway has been talking about this a lot lately - university degree cost inflation, which has skyrocketed without a commensurate increase in the quality of the product/service.)

There are other ways to pick up these skills, which are much more cost effective.

[twblalock]

That argument also applies to CS skills. There are lots of successful self-taught programmers out there.

Boot camps are the software equivalent of vocational/trade schools and they are looked down on for a reason.

[soco]

I assume your comment is made from an US perspective. Other countries manage to give students education without burying them in debt... maybe there's a lesson, somewhere...