On Ecommerce degress...

I spent 2 years in a compsci degree at a major Socal university and it was a total waste of time. We had people graduating with a specialization in data networking that barely knew subnet masking. I switched over to ecomm for a semester or so and found it much more practical than a vanilla compsci degree.

In 2002 my data networking class was teaching us NOVELL 4. Not 5, NOT 6 nope NOVELL 4. In my intro to ecomm class I learned about shopping comparision sites, payment gateways and it even touched on SEM/SEO. The problem with US colleges (and most Western countries) is their classes, especially computer related are all but irrelevant except for some cutting edge stuff. Data networking, info sec etc classes are completely outdated but ecomm is new enough that the course load is pulled from current implementations, not Novell 4 or DES equivilants.

In the end though I decided to switch international business degree because I learn computers much better on my own than in a class room.