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My main concern is that you won't get anywhere near of lab-time. It is a huge part of EE education, and I honestly probably spent 30% of my time working on lab projects.

More importantly - many of those lab projects require:

1. Expensive equipment. Spectrum analyzers, big motors/transformers/generators, etc.

2. Bespoke/boutique setups for things like automation projects , that simulate real-life processes. Schools spend a lot of money on these things, and have in-house engineers that perform maintenance, updates, repairs on them. These are normally not things you can just build over the weekend, and then use for self-learning. Hell - in many cases, Bachelors Thesis projects consist of building stuff like that, and then validating the generated data (measurements, etc.) by theory.

Sure - one can simulate A LOT of things today, but there are things you need to work on with your hands, in order to learn something useful.