You have a very good point when it comes to graduate placement. Perhaps that was the some of the problem with the UF comp sci department - perhaps they were not placing enough graduates. As for WGU I wonder what kind of placement rate they have for their development managers - I don't think I'd be too eager to hire one without knowing something about project management and a working understanding of just one language. Heck my 15 year old nephew has more relevant education than that (Java and VB.NET) and he just started high school! ..and he attends a public school (one of the better ones obviously).

>It's the people in academics. The people teaching the classes. And it's systemic. Look at the computer degrees offered by Western Governor's University. One is to be a development manager, yet they don't have a single class in project management. And all their programming classes are in Java. Not that Java is bad, but only teaching that language does not reflect what happens in the real world.
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>I've said for years that the purpose of a university is not to educate, but to place graduates. That's one of the first thing they'll tell potential students. "Our graduate placement rate is ...."
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>>Wow. So I wonder who it is that comes up the class requirements for these programs - obviously they're not exactly clued in to the real world needs of a CS grad.
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>>>A "good" computer science program, IMO, is meaningless. The University of Utah has one of the best rated CS departments in the country, but when I look at the program, it is VERY heavy on what academics think they should be teaching and VERY little on what is really needed today. For example, somewhere between 80% and 90% of CS graduates will end up developing business software, yet the UofU program does not require a single business class.
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>>>>Athletics budget is ~$100M, CS budget ~$1.5M
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>>>>Sounds like the CS program is a joke - the school says it has an enrollment of 50,000: http://www.ufl.edu/about-uf/facts-and-rankings/
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>>>>Maybe the thinking is, if they can't provide a *good* CS program, don't do it at all.