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A couple of reasons:

* Building CRUD apps lack depth, when they don't lack depth, they lack timeless knowledge (in many cases). A well picked bachelor/master does not have that. There are programming jobs out there that don't have that but they are in the minority and I am bad at getting to the interview stage, despite having a master in CS (my cv is ragged, I had a terrible start and don't know how to recover from it other than just by moving on and hoping for the best).

* A university provides fellow students and TAs. In some cases I prefer heavily to study with them rather than doing a MOOC on my own. A study group is harder to setup. Getting a tutor is definitely an alternative for the TA part.