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Survey: IT Pros Say Programmers Don’t Need a Degree

Survey: IT Pros Say Programmers Don’t Need a Degree

A new survey of UK-based IT pros finds that 71 percent of those surveyed believe that self-taught developers are as skilled as those with degrees. In addition, 45 percent said that having an IT degree isn’t really that helpful for getting a job.

Rising university fees led more than half of those surveyed to say that if they were just starting out, they would not pursue a degree today.

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