I've been coding professionally for a little over 7 years now. A few years back, I decided that it would be A Good Idea (tm) to get my degree. After checking out a few schools, I decided on a certain unnamed school (a franchise with several locations, recently changed its suffix from "Institute" to "University" and advertises on late night cable television). Since they advertised that I could use life experience, I was happy to go there.

Big mistake. I was basically forced to start out with a class, "How to use Microsoft Windows". In this class there were 5 other developers and 7 network administrators. The class was just a bunch of Microsoft propaganda.

After talking with a number of other students, it was clear that a large portion of those near graduation had no idea what they were doing. (One even told me that Windows NT 4.0 was more secure and more stable than Solaris 7.)

After writing a 4 page letter to the university president, I switched to a liberal arts school where I am currently pursuing a Philosophy degree. That's much, much better.