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Comment by amy_reddit96 | Hacker News Reader

it is beneficial in the long run because you dont face the issue that OP is facing....

Also the UK doesn't completely cripple you with student debt. CS degrees are also valuable, can pretty much get into any other field with this piece of paper.

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It seems like OP is from the U.S., where, unlike the U.K., the education system knee-caps students financially. Hence, if one goes to school in the U.S. taking out loans isn't worth it.

I went to a respectable state school (to the point where people comment that they like the SDEs that my state school has produced when I speak to other devs) for my undergraduate degree, and I've recently become debt free. If I had gone for CS, I probably could have expected to be $35-40k in the red on graduation. While it seems abnormally high across the Atlantic, it wouldn't have been some catastrophic ivy league 6-figure loan pricetag that's become the debt figure people like to highlight so much.

Many people that I've kept in contact with who followed the CS track were more than able to pay off their student loans because most people I know went to state schools like I did. It would be unreasonable to say that there are no failure stories as there are plenty of those, but with the salaries in the industry even for juniors who find themselves working for slightly above average companies (envision $55-65k fresh out of college in the US and they still get to live at home), the loan would have absolutely been worth it.

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