kiddo is right i have personally knows lots of IT folks who started out of business manor and now they not work are very successful IT folks but most of them are managers too. think about it 4 yrs of college 2 yrs of electives and prerequisites. 2 years of actual learning but that too only 1 or 2 classes that come helpful towards your actual job. that can be easily done in six months if you're really inclined to learn and put lots of hours in learning vs. 2-3 hrs of class and few more project time. also remember most professors have no clue about the new softwares and the IT market. some of these so called IT professors have graduated in the era when punch cards were used to input data , lucky if they learned their programming in green letter computer monitor of 80s. self learning if the only think you can take out of college if anything. don't get cocky about cs major.after all universities are business, they want to keep you there and make money out of you as much as they can and they can do that if they keep you there for 4-5 yrs.