{"id":29064,"date":"2017-01-30T21:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=29064"},"modified":"2023-04-06T19:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:06:19","slug":"college-degree-web-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/college-degree-web-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Web Development Degree Worthless? 5 Reasons to Reconsider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many web developers you\u2019ll meet <strong>probably have a degree<\/strong> in information technology or computer science, or relevant courses where programming is involved. At least up <strong>until a decade ago this was the norm<\/strong>, to study in a university, earn a degree, and land a job in a tech company. <strong>Self-taught developers were as rare as unicorns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"recommended_top\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/should-designers-start-from-design-school\/\">Should Designers Start from Design School?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Such is <strong>not the case anymore<\/strong>. There is a growing number of people who are self-taught when it comes to <strong>mobile and web development<\/strong>. But why so? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/degree-vs-self-learning\/\">Isn\u2019t having a degree not that important anymore?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On one hand, <strong>you can\u2019t be a nurse if you don\u2019t have a degree in nursing<\/strong>, same goes for becoming an engineer, accountant, and many other fields. However, for IT skill-based jobs, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/learn-web-design\/\">learning web design<\/a> and web development, <strong>getting a degree doesn\u2019t have much importance<\/strong>, and in the write-up that follows, I will tell you just why is it so.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Thousands of free learning resources online<\/h2>\n<p>Why spend years studying in college to earn a degree when you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/sites-to-learn-coding-online\/\">learn HTML, CSS, and PHP<\/a> in a few months, especially when there are so many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/free-online-courses\/\">free online courses<\/a> available on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>hundreds of self-taught web developers<\/strong> who, before starting, had absolutely no knowledge about how web development works. I personally know a high school graduate who never went to college and just straight up started learning the basics on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codecademy.com\/\">Codecademy.com<\/a>. I am certain that you know someone like that too.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/college-degree-web-development\/learn-free.jpg\" alt=\"codecademy\" width=\"700\" height=\"356\"><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, one of the reasons why this blog exists is to teach everyone about <strong>different techniques and methodologies in web design and development<\/strong> \u2013 that too, absolutely free. Itching to get started? Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/design-dev\/\">Design and Dev<\/a> category to get started \u2013 note that if you are absolutely new to all of these, you\u2019ll need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/tag\/series-html5-css3-tuts\/\/\">learn the basics<\/a> first.<\/p>\n<h2>2. A lot of companies simply don\u2019t care<\/h2>\n<p>Well, if you are aiming to climb the corporate world, having a degree does fuel the promotion. But there is a growing number of startups that simply don\u2019t care <strong>if you have a degree or not<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays you can be a <strong>registered nurse and still work as a web developer<\/strong> for a company that is halfway around the world from you (I know one). All they really care about, like everyone else, are results. If you can <strong>deliver high quality work on time that\u2019s all that matters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/college-degree-web-development\/startups.jpg\" alt=\"startup interior\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\"><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, on <strong>99% of online job boards education is not even a required field<\/strong> and holds no actual bearing on how clients and employers will see you. The emphasis is always on the <strong>portfolio and experience<\/strong>, which is something anyone can acquire without having to go through college.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Standardized teaching and testing is terrible<\/h2>\n<p><strong>People learn at their own pace, some faster than others<\/strong>, some learn better hands-on and others by learning the theories first. But schools don\u2019t distinguish among these different learners. Everyone <strong>studies at the same pace, is taught using the same methods and is graded using a standard model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/college-degree-web-development\/standardized-tests.jpg\" alt=\"writing on paper\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"><\/figure>\n<p>But if you <strong>learn on your own with books and online resource<\/strong>, it will be faster and much more economical (read: free). If you choose to earn a degree in IT or Computer Science just to become a web developer, that would be much more <strong>expensive and you\u2019ll be subject to their teaching methods<\/strong> that may or may not work for you.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside, however, is that <strong>you would need to learn how to motivate yourself<\/strong>. It\u2019s a common <strong>pitfall for self-learners<\/strong> to procrastinate and just not do what they are supposed to be doing, so you need to find your source of motivation to learn by yourself.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Technology updates faster than the school\u2019s curriculum<\/h2>\n<p>If you <strong>study for two years<\/strong> for an associate degree or <strong>four years<\/strong> for a bachelor\u2019s degree, a lot of things that you learned during your first year will already be <strong>obsolete by the time you\u2019ll pass out of college<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The rate at which technology and methodologies are updated is fast. Things can change in just a week, a month, or a year, while the <strong>academic curriculum often remains outdated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/college-degree-web-development\/fast-technology.jpg\" alt=\"laptop coding\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"><\/figure>\n<p>For example, since <strong>I myself earned my degree in college<\/strong>, by the time I graduated almost no company in and around the city I was living in, was hiring ASP.net developers. I can hear you thinking \"well, you should have studied online instead of opting for college\" and my answer is \"exactly!\".<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web development requires constant learning and application<\/strong>, but in school it is mostly the learning part without the application of it, and that\u2019s where the problem arises. You can <strong>get left behind easily by new standards<\/strong> and practices.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Degree doesn\u2019t vouch for a fat paycheck<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Unlike the corporate world<\/strong> where people with multiple degrees tend to start off with <strong>higher salaries because of their qualifications<\/strong>, web development doesn\u2019t depend on your degree to be highly rewarding, especially when it comes to <strong>working as a freelancer<\/strong>. I know that it\u2019s an overused term, but the earning potential is based on the <strong>quality of your work, and how many clients you can find<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/college-degree-web-development\/money-web-development.jpg\" alt=\"money counting\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\"><\/figure>\n<p>Another thing here is if you will work from home, getting hired by a startup or <strong>finding clients from across the globe is practically easy<\/strong>. This means that if you live in a country with lower GDP per capita, you can get a job from a <strong>country with a higher GDP per capita<\/strong> and earn as much as the people who live there. You can be someone who has never stepped in college, learned web development on your own, and <strong>still earns $100,000 per year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>When is a Degree Useful?<\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s face it, as <strong>businesses realize that they need to \"be online\"<\/strong> the demand for web designers and developers also increased, and that\u2019s good. But at the same time the market is being <strong>oversaturated by people who want to start developing sites for a living<\/strong>, thus competition rises.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, (and this is already happening to developers in real life) it is becoming <strong>unsustainable for many to work as freelance web developers<\/strong>. In this case, having a degree is useful if you wish to work in a corporate scene where <strong>money is more stable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/college-degree-web-development\/degree-useful.jpg\" alt=\"library\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"><\/figure>\n<p>Another thing to keep note is that while <strong>getting a degree in web development<\/strong> is expensive and, as pointed above, basically \"useless\", there are <strong>many other skills that you can pick up<\/strong> such as principles in design that professors may know about and business ethics and on how to deal with people \u2013 something that <strong>can be learned in theory<\/strong>, but very different when it comes to application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"recommended_top\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/questions-paid-online-courses\/\">5 Essential Questions Before Enrolling in Paid Online Courses<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many web developers you\u2019ll meet probably have a degree in information technology or computer science, or relevant courses where programming is involved. 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