[zubr1768]

Hm yeah. As one who functions better as an entrepreneur than a subordinate/employee in a corporation, I'm thinking increasingly that it doesn't matter much what the ratings etc. of a school are any more. Thinking it's better to cherry pick knowledge from various sources without going further into debt and let my work speak for itself.

The only caveat is that with this path, while there is no ceiling to the amount of success, impact or satisfaction in life that one can have, some highly specialized fields requiring advanced academic knowledge would generally remain out of reach.