You do realize that a Computer Science degree is more likely to make an employer not consider you than help your cause. Not only does it say something bad about you in the eyes of a potential employer of a computer related job, the market is flooded with Business and Computer Science degrees. You are better off to get a degree that teaches you how to think rather than one that teaches you field related content that you should have the initiative to learn on your own and/or on the job.

If you are serious about a computer based career, I would recommend Information Systems and Technology. That will prove more useful to you in the long run, since it is easier to learn that stuff in a college atmosphere and it is more technical than just "i lernd 2 code in skool" on your resume. If you want to learn coding languages, do what I did: pick up a book about the language and learn it yourself. Saying "Self-taught and highly proficient in PHP, MySQL, ASP, VB, Java, Python, and C++; portfolio of work" looks a lot better than "Got Computer Science degree at some university" on a resume.

Jeff, I don't think you understand what Computer Science really is.  There is much more to it than just learning how to program.  In fact, in my four years of college I have only had one class whose goal was to teach you how to program.  After that course you took a competency exam, and if you failed that, you were out of the program.  From that point on professors assumed that we knew how to program, or could teach ourselves.  After that all our courses focus on engineering, computational theory, and various other topics that are not programming.  Anyone can learn how to program in their free time, but that doesn't mean a whole lot in the end.

Getting a degree in IT is only an acceptable alternative if someone wants to work in IT, which not everyone does.  There is a key difference between getting a job as a programmer, and getting a job as a software engineer, and there is also a significant difference in pay as well.  An IT degree may get you a job running some company's network, or writing generic business applications all day, but if you want to get into more interesting fields of research you are going to need a more substantial degree.  Not only this, but IT from my experience is significantly less technical.  Everyone at my college who failed out of the CS program went into IT.  They did this only because IT was easier, and all they did was program.

Also, most companies require a person to have a degree in Computer Science, or Software Engineering.  If you do not have that degree, they will not finish looking at your resume no matter how many languages you claim to know.  While I agree with you that showing that you took the effort to go out and learn languages on your own does look a lot better on a resume, the fact is some companies don't even process all incoming resumes by hand.  I know of a few that run all of them through a scanner that checks for certain key phrases, one of which is if you earned a degree.  If your resume does not have that on it, your resume will not be seen by a human being.  It is unfortunate, but true.

What, I'm not just talking out of my ass here. I have a lot of things I could use to back up an argument for my point. However, I'm not going to walloftext+continueargument because I think I've derailed his topic enough now. If you want to continue it in PM I can do that.

I remember you, MasterJaffer. Welcome back!