You can argue about the value of traditional education.

But I think you would be hard pressed to find a university, even a crappy one, where it's up to the students to TA themselves, there are 100 students to one professor, and the curriculum constantly changes in the middle of a semester. So it's not quite accurate to try and compare Lambda to a traditional univeristy.

But congrats on your success in career changing. It begs the question of whether you could've done that on your own without attending a boot camp.