[jmole]

How old are you now? If you're young, and you can hustle some financial aid (not as hard as you think), then go for it.

A degree is more about access than knowledge, TBH. Go to a good school, find some professors working on really cutting-edge shit, and work for them. That will give you a better education than just about anything else. If you're just taking classes, any non-Ivy school is going to give you the same education you could get for free online (assuming you really put the effort in).

[creativebeing]

im almost 21. The aid is certainly an option if i qualify as in need. So your saying that the value is how much you learn and get out of it, not so much the value the paper will give you into jobs?