Economics Degree or CCIM

[Andrew Magallanes]

I have an opportunity to go to school to get an economics degree and have it paid for me, but I also was wondering about getting into the CCIM education, the problem however is that I don't really know what to do. On one hand I feel like going to college would be more of a waste because of all the free info like MIT and coursera.com, rei clubs, books,and forums such as this one but on the other hand I think learning economics or CCIM would be great because of all  the content I would be learning. Is it  worth going to school vs learning elsewhere, and if it is worth it which one would you guys recommend. As of right now I am 19 and I really don't want to waste any of time with anything that would be counterproductive . Thank you in advance for all the comments, I really appreciate it.

[Bryan Hancock]

Why not use the and operator instead of the or operator and do them both?