Not sure I'd agree with the arguement that the best designers etc in the world didn't go to University. people like Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag and Dave Shea all have computing/design degrees and David Fried, Chad Hurley and Tom Anderson all have graduate degress of one form or another.
Mind you Bill gates famously doesn't.
To give you an idea there's a small web design/development studio local to me who are looking for staff and they want a BSc (in anything) plus XHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, XML and DB skills as a minimum. On the plus side the starting salary is 25k+.
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