The question is whether employers will accept such an education as the equivalent of a name-brand university “education.” For one thing, it is well known that many employers value elite-college graduates not necessarily for what they have “learned” in college, but because they rely on the screening process that got the graduate/job candidate into the college to begin with. Will they place the same value on graduates of computer universities?

And many colleges are locked into guild arrangements with credentialing bodies of various professions: teaching, medicine, law, architecture, to name a few. Bar associations and medical boards (and certainly union-dominated education boards!) are not going to be recognizing computer degrees any time soon, I’ll wager. It took a long time to build up these symbiotic conspiracies of monopoly, and they will not go away without a very long fight.