Generally speaking, it may not be necessary to have academic qualification for most IT support jobs; you may also be able to get into other IT positions (as long as you have equivalent amount of experience, i.e bachelors degree is equivalent to 4 yrs exp). However, you may find yourself in somewhat difficult position if you wanted to move up the ladder with a multinational, i.e. Fortune 500 (if that's your long term goal). Also, keep in my mind that IT spectrum is quite wide; if you have a good IT background and you combined it with a graduate degree in business you might make a fine business analyst. In contrast, if you apply for a position as a software engineer where a rival search engine is working to immobilize the well-known page rank algorithm then expect a rejection. The best candidate for this probably would be someone with a good grasp of theoretical comp sci with good software engineering skills. I am sure you understand where I am going with this... -JB