Should I do Bachelor of Technology?

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It is a real Uni, the programme is actually offered through RMIT, the 10th best Uni in the country right after Macquarie.  I presume the degree would be from RMIT not the Open University.  It's also nice in that you aren't expected to be full time so you can take more than three years and nobody cares.

I say go for it, I work for a Uni and everyone one here says that RMIT is good in Computer Sciences.  Are you in Victoria that you could visit the Uni and talk to some of the instructors?  I really think that the Open University is one of the best things they could do.  I assume you are eligible for Austudy or Youth Allowance?  That should help ease the burden.

The IT industry today runs on paper, all sorts of degrees and muttly awards are available.  Back in the old days you just started programming and became an IT person...

Go for it!

I thought I had replied to this already, maybe not.  I wouldn't go to a 100% online university as I doubt a HR will pay too much attention to it as it's questionable creditability.  If it was a online section of a real school, that would be different.  Real school, I would go talk to the Placement Office and see what % of Seniors (in the major your asking about) are getting job offers prior to their graduation.  Ask what the current group (again, your major) of soon to graduates have secured job offers.  If they give you a song and dance, it's either the wrong major to get a job or wrong place to be getting a degree from.

What was a hot major to get a degree from two years ago maybe cold stone dead now.   Average person will now have three different careers in their life time.

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It's the bloody agencies that control IT hiring that worry about the paper.  If you can get around them you are better off.  We don't use the agencies and of all the IT hiring committees I've been on we've been divided on paper certifications.  I tend to look at experience, younger people at degrees and certificates.  I've seen people with a pocket full of Microsoft or CompTIA A+ certificates who didn't have a clue about the real world or at least the real world inside a Uni...

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But of course the vast majority of Doctors finish with an MBBS, become a GP and try to survive paying off education, the price of setting up a surgery and the ever declining (in terms of real value) Medicare payments.  I know GPs who work six days a week, twelve hour days.  A good IT job pays more and demands less than a GP position.  But if you do postgraduate study and become a specialist, then it's a whole different game.  Lawyers are pretty much the same with solicitors having a harder go than barristers.

I visit my sister in law in Castle Hill and the best houses seem to have a tax cab parked in front of them, so education isn't everything...