[samsonr]

Greetings from Romania too. I'm 24 and I've been actively working as a programmer for the past ~3 years. I have graduated from ASE - Cybernetics (Bucharest) at the age of 22 and been working in the area since then. Despite the fact that I felt college wasn't teaching me so much as the real world, it surely shaped me and changed my view of things. The biggest gain for me probably was that college showed me how little do I know about programming in general and motivated me to keep learning every day.

While the college level is arguably lower than other parts of the world, you'll still get the chance to interact with smarter people and that can only help.

I've also had the chance to work with people without a CS degree (people around my age) and I think they are finding it harder to learn new concepts without a proper (academic) foundation.

Go for it, you will not regret the choice.