No, it doesn't. You can learn many skills by simply learning them on your own free time. I learned how to program in C++. Java, C, C##, etc, with nothing but some books, a free program, and some free time. Hell, when I was going to college I worked for a web developer doing a skill that learned how to do in my free time when I was sixteen. I could be a damn artist if I felt like it too and again I learned how to draw, paint, even 3d model in my free time. I could be a mapper for a video game company if I felt like it as again I learned the skill in my free time and released many maps even a game using unreal development kit(free) using skills I learned in my free time. The myth that you need to have to go to college to learn a skill is blatantly false. Hell, you could start your own business if you wanted with almost nothing down. Need an idea on how? Buy used printer ink carriages, fill them with ink and resell them. See, its easy. You just have to think.