Student-Degree valuable or not?

["DANIEL SIMPSON" <DANSIMPS () uat edu>]

Hey,


I just retired from a 4 year stint in Silicon Valley where I was a
System Administrator/Technical Engineer for a couple start-ups. I
started getting more and more into Information Security and finally
decided to quit my boring job and move to Arizona to enter a 4 year
program at a private university. I'm getting my B.S in software
engineering with an emphasis on security. How valuable will this degree
be and what are the forecasts for the job market in this field in about
4 years. The program is REALLY expensive and I cashed out all my
investments/savings to pay for it (roughly 10k a year). I might even go
to law school afterwards. Is this degree worth the estimated 40-50k? I'm
22 btw, my dream is to work for Microsoft or Goggle for a couple years
and start my own security firm.


Any suggestions would be awesome.

Dann

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