[lucifer]

Meaningful answers to questions such as "Should I study CS?" are critically informed by the questioner.

Obviously, if you want to make a living in IT and already know how to code, heck, get to work and make money instead of giving it to some corporation masquerading as an "institution of higher learning".

But if your ambition in life includes 'solving the tough problems in computer science', then by all means, pick a top notch school and be diligent in sucking brain content from peers and faculty. Its is not a trivial intellectual domain, and the "primitiveness" of the discipline is actually indicative of how early in the game this thing is.

So , wanna to be the Plato of Computer Science? Either way, you'll need to get that "computer science" education. From the ground up.