What do you think about higher education, is it necessary these days?

Let me give you an answer I always give to the people I interview for my company. Your qualification does not matter when you have proven something already in your domain. For most of the people I work with, I do not prefer to ask about their qualifications. I am a founder and CEO of a company, and for your information, I am also a Solution Architect, and I don't have a post-graduation degree or an MBA degree but leading a big team. I hope this answer will help you to understand where the degree matters.

I think Curiosity and being autodidactic is more important today, But at the same time, the connections you make in higher education are really helpful.

In my opinion, this is a must for highly responsible professionals, like doctors, lawyers, and engineers. As for the rest, I recommend it, but not in the States. It's a rip-off!

I think higher education is very important. It will give you a deeper understanding of what you want to do

I thought that it wasn't that necessary because I got Bachelor's in Radio Engineering and Master's in PM / Business. But then my PM degree has helped me numerous times - to launch my business, and drive project-based initiatives in every company I worked for. Also, having a master's degree has helped me immigrate to Canada, because academic degree do count - at they weight a lot - in official evaluations of your 'human capital' worth. Then, Knowledge from my Tech Degree has helped me nail learning programming in just 6 months. How? Because I've studied the hardware - everything about Electronics, Semi-conductors and Transistor logic. We used to design (on paper) the Analog-Digital and Digital-Analog convertors, and Transistor logic devices, and Transistor storage devices. Which all is Computer Science, but even on the deeper level then taught in Comp Science classes (at least 90% of Comp Science grads didn't know what I knew about the physical layer). Not to mention CISCO standard courses for Computer Networking. It all helped me get credibility for all of the job interviews, my current employer is also a PhD in Radio Engineering, so he even asked me some of Radio 101 questions during the interview - and he was impressed that I remember than stuff 7 years after graduation. That was a sign for him of my overall intellectual development, and academic degrees are a sign of quality. Yeah, there are many ways to get these degrees without learning anything, but it's the best mean for credibility that we have. And maybe elite professional certifications can count, too, like Financial (CPA, CFA, FRM), PM (PMP), CISCO, Microsoft etc. But I would learn any of that if it wasn't for the University, and to be honest, I did like 40% of my potential in school because I loved missing classes, hanging out with friends instead of learning and was overall very lazy (smart, but lazy) student. To sum up, higher education can be dodged, but if you're not from a developer country - you really want to consider getting the highest degree possible in order to increase your Mobility on the International Market.

Of course qualifications from higher education is instrumental in understanding a candidates capabilities (such as discipline, work ethic, passions), but Bill Gates did drop out of College... On the fence with this one!

Higher education can be grabbed through home also, But it is more important to go outside and interact with new peers and make connections. So for finding the like minded people, one can pursue offline Higher studies

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@shakhmetava_natallia I am currently pursuing Bachelors in business administration at ESSEC Business school in paris. Coming from a background of entrepreneurs in the education sector, here's my hot take! Higher education today is all about networking & building connections. Sure, you learn more in depth for certain topics but its nothing you can't learn off youtube. Unless, you are switching to a different direction completely, i do not think higher education is completely necessary. As creators, our world revolves around our connections.